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CT 53, 277 (P313692)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 277
ID	P313692
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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'	Let [the king, my lord], do [as he deems best].
Obverse [3:7] o 4'4'–o 7'7'	[Concerning the messenger] of the son of Zer[î about whom the king, my lord], wrote to me: "Speak [kindly wi]th him; [...] not 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] lu ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
2'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ li\d ⸢x⸣+[x x]
3'	[x x x x] ⸢le\d⸣-pu\p-uš [x]
4'	[ina UGU x x] ša\ydm DUMU—{1}⸢NUMUN⸣-[i]
5'	[ša LUGAL be-li₂] iš\d-pur-a-ni ⸢ma⸣-[a]
6'	[dib-bi DUG₃.GA-MEŠ i]-si-šu₂ du-ub-bu\p
7'	[ma-a x x x]+⸢x⸣-ši-ka la-a ⸢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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