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CT 53, 147 (P313562)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 147
ID	P313562
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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:5] 11–55	To the king, my lord: your servant Assurbanipal. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and [Mard]uk b[les]s the king, my lord.
Obverse [5:6] 66–66	[...... o]f
Obverse [6:7] 77–77	[... is in] my presence.
Obverse [7:9] 88–	[... may] decide

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	ana MAN EN-ia₂
2	ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—DU₃—A
3	lu ⸢DI-mu⸣ ana MAN U-ia₂
4	{d}PA u {d}[AMAR].⸢UTU⸣ ana MAN U-ia₂
5	⸢lik⸣-[ru]-⸢bu⸣
6	⸢us x⸣ [x x] ⸢ša⸣
7	[x x x ina] IGI-ia₂
8	[x x] ⸢lip-ru⸣-us
b.e.
9	⸢x x x⸣ a-na-⸢hu⸣

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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