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CT 53, 381 (P313795)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 381
IDP313795
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
Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66[To the king, my lord: your] servant [PN], the sc[ribe of ...]. Good [health to the king, my lord]!
Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2'Ṣalam-šarri-[iqbi]
Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3'the chief [......]
Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4'bro[ught me (...)]

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)
o
1[a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia]
2ARAD-[ka {1}x x x x x]
3{lu₂v}A.[BA x x x x x]
4lu [DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
5{d}[x x x x x x]
6⸢a⸣-[na x x x x x x]
r
1'an-[x x x x x x]
2'{1}NU—MAN—[E x x x x]
3'{lu₂v}GAL—[x x x x x]
4'i-tu-[bi-la o]

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