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CT 53, 650 (P314062)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 650
IDP314062
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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55To [the king, my lord]: your servant [PN]. Good healt[h to the king, my lord]! [May] Nabû and [Marduk bless the king], my lord.
Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88[Ye]sterda[y I said ...]: "Let me co[me ...]"

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 [LUGAL EN-ia]
2ARAD-ka {1}[x x x x]
3lu-u šul-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
4{d}AG u {d}[AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL]
5EN-ia [lik-ru-bu]
6[ina] ⸢ti⸣-ma-⸢li⸣ [x x x x]
7[mu-uk] la-⸢li⸣-[ka x x x x]
8[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]

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