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CT 53, 122 (P313537)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 122
ID	P313537
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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'	[... I have hea]rd that he has gone to [...].
Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3'	As to [......] the Andian [...],
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'	[the ... o]f the Urarṭian [...]
Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6'	has descended [to ... and ...ed] the [citi]es [...]

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)
o
1'	[x x a-se]-me ma-a ina ⸢ba⸣-[x x x]
2'	[x x it]-ta-lak ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x]
3'	[x x x] {kur}an-di-a.a ⸢x⸣ [x x x]
4'	[x x] ⸢ša⸣ {kur}URI\dm-a.a [x] PAB [x x x]
5'	[x x] ⸢i-tu⸣-rid [URU]-MEŠ-ni [x x x]
6'	[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x]

Sources & licences

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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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