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CT 53, 669 (P314080)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 669
IDP314080
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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[...] eyes [...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[...] He said: "It is a royal order
Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5'[...] 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
1'[x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x]
2'[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ IGI.2-ME {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x]
3'[x x] ⸢ma⸣-a a-bat LUGAL ši-[ti]
4'[x x x]-an-ni ša an-[x x x]
5'[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x]

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