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CT 53, 816 (P314225)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 816 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314225 |
| 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 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse? 6' | On account of |
| reverse? 2' | In |
| reverse? 5' | The bodyguard |
| obverse? 3' | Who... |
| obverse? 2' | On account of |
| obverse? 7' | Concerning the bodyguard... |
| obverse? 5' | You did not write... |
| obverse? 4' | Iba- |
| obverse? 1' | On account of |
| reverse? 3' | What...? |
| reverse? 7' | Why...? |
| obverse? 6' | one Abatu(?) |
| obverse? 9' | Id- |
| reverse? 4' | and |
| obverse? 8' | May... grant me... |
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
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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