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CT 53, 755 (P314165)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 755
IDP314165
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 [0:6] o 1'1'–[...] about which the k[ing, my lord] wro[te me]: "[......]."
Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44[I am] d[oing] the wor[k]. The king, [my lord], can [be at ease].

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'ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂]
2'iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni]
3'ma-a [x x x x]
4'i-[x x x x]
5'ia-[x x x x]
r
1dul-⸢lu⸣ [x x x]
2e-[pa-aš₂ x x]
3LUGAL [x x x x]
4lu-⸢u₂⸣ [x x x]

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