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K 20556 (P418961)
ARCHIVAL > Letter; OTHER > Uncertain, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 20556 |
|---|---|
| ID | P418961 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > Letter; OTHER > Uncertain |
| 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 2 | "The man |
| obverse 2' | ... from... |
| obverse 4' | they shall hear and... |
| reverse 4 | he will buy... |
| reverse 1 | ...... |
| reverse 3 | he opened |
| reverse 5 | ...... |
| left 1' | ... tablet of Labasi. |
| reverse 6 | ...... |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 3' | ... the troops, the king... |
| obverse 5' | ... in the house |
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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