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CT 53, 488 (P313901)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 488
ID	P313901
Museum no.	BM —
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates	36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66	[To the king, my lord: your servant PN. Good hea]lth to the king, [my lord]! May Nabû and Mar[duk] bless the king, m[y] lord.
Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010	As to the go[ld]smith about whom the king sai[d]: "Who is he?"

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)

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
o
1	[a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
2	[ARAD-ka {1}x x x x]
3	[lu DI]-mu a-na MAN [EN-ia]
4	{⸢d⸣}PA u₃ {d}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU]
5	a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣
6	lik-ru-bu [o]
7	ina UGU {lu₂v}SIMUG.KUG.[GI]
8	ša LUGAL iq-bu-[u-ni]
9	ma-a man-nu šu-[u₂]
10	⸢i x x x⸣ [x x x]

Sources & licences

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)

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