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CT 53, 413 (P313826)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 413
IDP313826
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenrePriestly Letter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44[N]N, a votary [of] Ištar [of] Arbela [reported] [th]is mes[sag]e for the k[ing, my lord] —
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55"[...] Ištar [...]

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{[mi₂}x x x]-ia
2[ši]-⸢te⸣ še-lu-tu₂ [ša₂ {d]}15
3[ša] {⸢uru⸣}arba-il₃ ši-[pir]-⸢ti⸣
4[an]-⸢ni⸣-tu₂ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x]
5[ma-a x]+⸢x⸣ {d}15 [x x x]

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