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CT 53, 738 (P314148)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 738
IDP314148
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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1'[... the sta]tue of the king [...]
Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2'[...] to [...]
Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3'[...] in the begin[ning ...]
Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4'[... t]o the ki[ng ...]

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)
r
1'[x x x] ⸢NU⸣—MAN ⸢NU⸣—MAN [x x x]
2'[x x x] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢ka⸣-[x x]
3'[x x x x] ina ⸢SAG⸣ [x x]
4'[x x x a]-⸢na LUGAL⸣ [x x]
5'[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ib-⸢x⸣+[x x x]

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