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CT 53, 410 (P313823)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 410
IDP313823
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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'they have brought [their ...] into Sadiru.
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'I have [no]w asked them: "Why are [...] staying [in] Sadiru?"
Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6'They said: "[We have m]ade peace [...]. Since [we have given] our word to [the king ......]"

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'[x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x]
2'[x x]-ṣu ina {uru}sa-di\d-ri u₂-se-[ri-bu]
3'[u₂-ma]-a a-sa-al-šu₂-nu nu-uk\d a-ta\m-a [x x x]
4'[ina {uru]}sa-di\d-ri kam-mu-su ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
5'[ni]-⸢si⸣-lim ki-i pi-i-ni a-⸢na\t⸣ [x x x x x]
6'[x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x]

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