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CT 54, 388 (P239463)

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

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Designation	CT 54, 388
ID	P239463
Museum no.	BM —
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates	36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:7] 11–77	[Your servant Qišti-Marduk: I would gladly die] for the king, [my lo]rd! May [Na]bû and Marduk bless [Sargon, the king of Babylon, the ki]ng of the lands, the mighty king, [my lord! Say to] the king, my lord:

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)

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
1	[ARAD-ka {1}NIG₂.BA—{d}AMAR.UTU]
2	[a-na di-na]-⸢an⸣ LUGAL [be]-li₂-[ia lul-lik]
3	[d].⸢AG⸣ u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL—GIN LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki]}
4	⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR.KUR LUGAL dan-nu [be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu]
5	[um-ma-a] a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-[a-ma]
6	[x x x]+⸢x x x x x⸣+[x x x x]
7	[x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x x x]

Sources & licences

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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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)

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