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CT 53, 638 (P314050)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 638
IDP314050
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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'[...] in the forts [...]
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[Is Hu]mbariš [...]?
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[... t]o the aid of Hum[bariš]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'If [...] to the aid
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'[...] of H[umbariš]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'[...] Elam [......]

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)
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1'[x x] ⸢ina {uru⸣}HAL.⸢ṢU-MEŠ⸣ [x x x]
2'{1}⸢hum⸣-ba-re-e-še ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
3'[a]-⸢na⸣ kit-ri ša {1}⸢hum⸣-[ba-riš]
4'[(x) x]+⸢x⸣ šum₂-ma a-na kit-⸢ri⸣ [x x]
5'[x]-⸢li⸣-im-ma ša {1}⸢hum⸣-[ba-riš]
6'[x] {⸢kur⸣}NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [x x x x]

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