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CT 53, 543 (P313955)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 543
IDP313955
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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33To [the king, my lord]: your servant [NN]. Good heal[th to the king, my lord]!
Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44The king, [my] lo[rd, ......]
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55fo[rts ......]

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
1a-na\t [LUGAL be-li₂-ia]
2ARAD-ka {1}x x x x x]
3lu DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
4LUGAL be-[li₂ x x x x x]
5{⸢uru}bi⸣-[rat x x x x x]

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