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CT 53, 603 (P314015)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 603
ID	P314015
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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22	We have observ[ed ...... in] the west.
Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44	[Per]haps [th]ey will write to the king, [my] lord, (as follows):
Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66	"The f]ormer (is) Na[bû, the la]tter (is) the god [DN]."
Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77	[...] with the k[ing, my lord]

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	[x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x]
2	[ina] {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A ne₂-⸢ta-mar⸣
3	[is]—⸢su⸣-ri a-na LUGAL EN-[ia]
4	[i]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ru-u₂-⸢ni⸣
5	[ma-a] ⸢pa⸣-ni-u₂ {d}⸢PA⸣
6	[ma-a ur]-ki-u₂ {d}[x x]
7	[x x x] ⸢TA@v LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia]

Sources & licences

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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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