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CT 53, 529 (P313942)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 529
IDP313942
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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44[To the king, my lord: your servant Il-yada'. Good health to] the king, [my lord! The land and t]he fort[s of the king, my lord, are well. The king], my lord, [can be glad].
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55[...] Babylon [...]
Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77[...] in De[r ...]

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[a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia ARAD-ka {1}DINGIR—ia-da-aʾ]
2[lu-u DI-mu a-na] LUGAL [be-li₂-ia₂ DI-mu a-na]
3[ma-a-ti u₃] {⸢uru⸣}HAL.ṢU-[MEŠ ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂]
4[ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL] be-li₂-ia₂ ⸢lu⸣ [DUG₃.GA-šu₂]
5[x x x x] KA₂.DINGIR [x x x x x]
6[x x x x] ina {uru}de-[ri x x x x]
7[x x x x] e du ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]

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