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CT 53, 293 (P313708)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 293 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313708 |
| 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 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {d}30 [AN].MI [x x x] | [The moon] eclipse [......](low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 3' | UD 13-⸢KAM₂\t x⸣+[x x x] | On the 13th [......](low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 4' | AN.MI [x x x] | eclipse [......](low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 5' | UD-mu ur-⸢pu⸣ [x x x] | The day after [......](low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 6' | UD 30-KAM₂\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | On the 30th day [......](low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 7' | TA@v ŠA₃-bi [x x x] | from there(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 8' | ik-ta-⸢ra⸣-[ar x x x] | he sealed [......](low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 9' | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | a-na [x x x] | to [......](very low confidence: a guess) |
| 2' | ma [x x x] | |
| 3' | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] | to [......](very low confidence: a guess) |
| 4' | ⸢AN⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5' | a-[x x x] | I ...(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 6' | a-[x x x] | I ...(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 7' | ⸢x⸣+[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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