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CT 53, 218 (P313633)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 218
ID	P313633
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 [1:2] o 22–o 22	[Good health to the kin]g, m[y] lord!
Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33	[May DNN bless the k]ing, my lord.
Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44	[May they give ...]
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55	[ ... t]o the king, m[y] lord.
Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88	[May I s]ee your [...]

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 x x x] ⸢IM⸣ ŠU.BA.⸢TI⸣
2	[lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣
3	[x x x x a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia
4	[x x x x x x] ta [x]
5	[x x x x x a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣
6	[x x x x x x x]-ut-ka
7	[x x x x x x la]-mur
8	[x x x x x x] ⸢x-u-ka⸣

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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