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CT 53, 947 (P314356)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 947 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314356 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | To the king, my lord: |
| left 1 | ... my lord |
| obverse 5 | ...... |
| reverse 6' | An not... the divine powers |
| reverse 5' | The king, my lord, |
| obverse 4 | On account of the city |
| obverse 3 | Good health to the king, my lord! |
| reverse 3' | he made secure, and |
| reverse 2' | ...... |
| reverse 4' | the cities and |
| obverse 2 | In your presence Ad- |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| bottom 2 | my lord Ai- |
| left 2 | ... not barley(?) |
| bottom 1 | In the district and in the district of... |
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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