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CT 53, 681 (P314092)

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

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Designation	CT 53, 681
ID	P314092
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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'	[which] he/they [...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'	[...] their [me]ssenger
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'	[...] within the bedro[om]
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'	[...] spoke to [us]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'	[...] within ... [...]

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'	[x x x x]-ṣu-u-ni [o]
3'	[x x {lu₂]}⸢A⸣—KIN-e-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ {lu₂]}⸢A⸣—KIN-e-šu₂-⸢nu⸣
4'	[x x ina] lib-bi E₂—{giš}⸢NA₂⸣ E₂—{giš}⸢NA₂⸣
5'	[x x iq]-⸢ṭi⸣-ba-an-[na-ši]
6'	[x x ina] ⸢lib⸣-bi ab-⸢x⸣+[x x]
7'	[x x x x x]-MEŠ ⸢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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