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CTN 2, 197 (P471632)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 2, 197 |
|---|---|
| ID | P471632 |
| Museum no. | BM 132002 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kalhu (mod. Nimrūd) |
| Coordinates | 36.1022, 43.3385 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | a-na {lu₂}EN.NAM EN-ia₂ | To the governor, my lord: |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUMU-{d}15 | Your servant Mar-Issar. |
| 3 | {lu₂}I₃.ŠUR-MEŠ | the oil-pressers |
| 4 | an-nu-te a-na mi₃-i-ni | What are these things? |
| 5 | {lu₂}ša₂-UGU-URU | the city overseer |
| 6 | u₂-⸢ba⸣-a-šu₂-nu | they will bring.(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 7 | ina UGU GUD | Concerning the ox |
| 8 | an-nu-te-ma | these(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 9 | {giš}UR₃-MEŠ | the beams |
| 10 | ⸢li⸣-zi-bi-lu | they should bring.(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 11 | [x x x] dul₆-⸢lu⸣-šu₂-nu | [......] their work(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x]+x ⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | we [......](very low confidence: a guess) |
| 2' | ina UGU-hi-šu₂-nu | against them |
| 3' | ma-a-da a-da-ni-iš | to the land of his father |
| 4' | ina UGU {lu₂}ša₂-UGU-URU | Concerning the city overseer |
| 5' | li-iš-pur-u-ni | they should send me. |
| 6' | i-si-šu₂-nu | with them(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 7' | ⸢lu⸣ la DUG₄.DUG₄ | He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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