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1883-01-18, 0279 unpublished unassigned ? (P452653)
ARCHIVAL > Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1883-01-18, 0279 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452653 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > 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) |
|---|---|
| bottom 2 | of the lower side, feet... |
| obverse 1' | the meal... |
| reverse 4 | If a man's limbs... |
| reverse 6 | the rituals... |
| obverse 3' | dead...... |
| obverse 2' | and rituals... |
| reverse 3 | If a man's limbs... |
| obverse 5' | and the work... |
| reverse 2 | The blood of... |
| left 2 | of the KA.DIB.BI.DA... |
| left 1 | The mouth of the meal... |
| reverse 1 | and the eyes... |
| bottom 1 | (a kind of aromatic substance) |
| obverse 7' | life... |
| obverse 6' | dead...... |
| reverse 5 | of... meat... |
| obverse 8' | and rituals... |
| reverse 7 | ...... |
| obverse 4' | life... |
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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