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CT 53, 182 (P313597)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 182
ID	P313597
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 [0:9] o 1'1'–	[... about whom] I was given [t]hos[e orders] (and) [about wh]om the qu[een moth]er w[rote] to me yesterd[ay]: "They have appealed to [me]; they were not frightened [...]"

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] ⸢ri⸣ [x x x]
2'	⸢am⸣-mu-u₂-[ti]
3'	⸢ša⸣-ka-na-ku-u-ni
4'	⸢ša⸣ ina ti-ma-a-⸢li⸣
5'	⸢AMA—LUGAL ⸢AMA—LUGAL taš⸣-[pur]-an-ni
6'	⸢ma⸣-a it-⸢tah⸣-ru-u-[ni]
7'	⸢ma⸣-a ⸢la ig⸣-ru-⸢ru⸣
8'	[x x] ⸢x x x⸣ na UD ⸢x⸣
r
1	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ a ⸢x⸣+[x x]
2	[x] u ⸢x⸣ [x x] ur [x]
3	hi [x x x x x x]

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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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