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CT 53, 192 (P313607)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 192
IDP313607
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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

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Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'[As to the city lords about whom] the king, my lord, w[rote to me, I am herewith sending t]o the king, my lord:
Obverse [1:4] o 2'2'–o 4'4'[Ad]â, along with the Ni[...ean, the ...ean], the Uluean, [the ...ean], and the Meṣaean, along with Da[...],
Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7'[in all] 7 subjects of the kin[g, my lord, together with] Lullupa[yu ...].
Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8'[...] Da[...]
Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9'[...] Am-ra'i [...]
Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10'[...] cam[e ...]
Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11'[...] as [...]

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)
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1'[ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni]
2'{1}a]-⸢da⸣-a TA@v\dm {kur}ni-[x-x-a.a]
3'{⸢uru⸣}ul-u₂-a.a {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
4'{[kur]}me-ṣa-a.a TA@v\m {1}da\d-[x x x x]
5'[PAB] 07 ARAD-MEŠ\m-ni ša\ydm ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia]
6'[TA@v\m] {1}lu-ul-lu-pa-[a.a x x x]
7'[ina] ⸢UGU⸣ LUGAL EN-ia₂ [u₂-se-bi-la]
8'[x x x]-ši {1}da\d-a-[x x x x]
9'[x x x] {1}am—ra-⸢i⸣ [x x x x]
10'[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-tal-⸢ka⸣ [x x x]
11'[x x x x x]-u ki-i [x x x x]

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