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CT 53, 299 (P313714)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 299
ID	P313714
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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'	three [......]
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'	60 sheep [...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'	they together with [...]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'	are going [...]
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'	their people [...]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'	eat bread [...]
Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7'	d[rink wi]ne

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'	03 x⸣+[x x x x x]
2'	60 UDU-MEŠ\m ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
3'	šu-nu a-di [x x x]
4'	il\y-lu-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
5'	UN\d-MEŠ-šu₂-nu [x x x]
6'	NINDA-MEŠ e-ku-[lu x x]
7'	⸢GEŠTIN⸣-MEŠ ⸢i⸣-[ša₂-ti-u]

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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