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CT 53, 415 (P313828)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 415
IDP313828
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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5'"The (ruler) of [...] has writ[ten to me]: 'The Hu[buškian] has arr[ived] in [...].'"
Reverse [5:8] r 6'6'–r 8'8'On the 14th day, [I] se[nt Šulmu-beli], (my) deputy, t[o ...].

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)
r
1'[ma]-⸢a {uru⸣}[x-x-a.a]
2'i-sa-⸢ap⸣-[ra]
3'ma-a {kur}hu-[buš-ka-a.a]
4'a-na {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
5'iq\d-ṭa-[ra-bu-u-ni]
6'UD 14-KAM₂\t {1}[x x x]
7'{lu₂v}02-u₂ ⸢a⸣-[na x x x]
8'[a]-sa-⸢ap⸣-[ra o]

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