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CT 53, 769 (P314179)

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

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DesignationCT 53, 769
IDP314179
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 k[ing, my lord]: your servant [PN]. Good healt[h to the king, my lord]! May Nabû (and) [Marduk] bl[ess the king, my lord].

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⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia]
2ARAD-ka {1}[x x x x]
3lu DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
4{d}PA {d}[AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
5⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu]

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