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CT 53, 466 (P313879)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 466
IDP313879
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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Reverse [1:6] r 2'2'–r 6'6'Now, [should] the [...] (official) [fet]ch Aššur-šumi- ke'in from Tasti[ate]? What are [the king my lord's] instructions?

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'[x] ⸢TA@v\m x⸣+[x x x x]
2'⸢u₂⸣-ma-a {lu₂}[x x ma-a]
3'{1}aš-šur—MU—GIN-in [x x]
4'⸢TA@v\m⸣ ŠA₃ {uru}tas-ti\t-[a-te]
5'[mu]-ut-ha mi-nu ⸢ša\dm⸣ [LUGAL]
6'[be-li₂] i-qab-bu\p-ni

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