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CT 53, 570 (P313982)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 570
ID	P313982
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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44	T[o the king, my lord: your] servant [PN]. Good he[alth to the king, my lord]! [May] Nabû and [Marduk bless the king].
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55	As to the [......]
Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66	the chi[ef ......]
Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88	I as[ked ......]

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]
3	lu ⸢DI⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia]
4	{d}PA u {[d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL lik-ru-bu]
5	ina UGU [x x x x x x x]
6	{lu₂}⸢GAL⸣—[x x x x x]
7	a-sa-[ʾa-al x x x]
8	an-[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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