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CT 53, 292 (P313707)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 292
IDP313707
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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2'Should I come to Cal[ah]?
Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4'What is it that the king, [my l]ord, commands?

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)
r
1'⸢la-li-ka⸣-[a]
2'a-na {uru}kal-[ha]
3'mi-i-nu ša LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂]
4'i-qab-bu-u-ni

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