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CT 54, 357 (P239422)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationCT 54, 357
IDP239422
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2'[...] Babyl[on ...]
Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3'[...] to [...]
Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4'[...] trus[t (pl.') in ...]
Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5'[...] I have gi[ven ...]
Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6'[...] the name of [...]
Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8'[...] you wrot[e ...]
Obverse [9:11] 10'10'–11'11'[... B]abylo[n ...]

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1'[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
2'[x x x] ⸢x⸣ TIN.⸢TIR⸣{[ki} x x]
3'[x x x x] a-⸢na⸣ [x x x]
4'[x x x x] ru-uh-[ṣa x x x]
5'[x x x x] at-ta-[din x x x]
6'[x x x] ⸢x⸣ MU ša₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
7'[x x x x] {lu₂}⸢x⸣+[x x x]
8'[x x x] ⸢x⸣ taš-pu-[ra x x]
9'[x x x] ⸢x⸣-bu-⸢tu⸣-[ni x x x]
10'[x x x x] ⸢TIN⸣.TIR{[ki} x x x]
11'[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

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