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CT 53, 544 (P313956)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 544
ID	P313956
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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22	To the k[ing, my lord: your] serv[ant, NN]
Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1'	[in] my presence [...]
Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2'	[...] constan[t ...]
Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3'	He should [perform] the sacrifice.
Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4'	It is the beginning of [...] ... [...].

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⸣ [be-li₂-ia]
2	⸢ARAD⸣-[ka {1}x x x x]
r
1'	[ina] ⸢pa⸣-ni-⸢ia₂⸣ [x x x]
2'	[x] ka-a.a-⸢nu⸣ [x x x]
3'	{⸢udu⸣}SISKUR le-[pu-uš]
4'	re-eš ta-[x x]
5'	šu-u ⸢ta\p⸣ [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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