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CTN 2, 201 (P471635)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 2, 201 |
|---|---|
| ID | P471635 |
| Museum no. | BM 131994 |
| 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 {1}{d}EN-da-a-ni | to Beldan |
| 2 | qi₂-bi-ma um-ma | [Say] thus: |
| 3 | {1}{d}mi-šar-rum-ŠEŠ-ir DUMU-kam₂ | Mišarrum-ereš is the son of |
| 4 | a-na ka-a-ša₂ lu-u₂ šul-mu | May it be well with you! |
| 5 | um-ma-a a-na AD-ia₂-a-ma | Thus (says) my father: |
| 6 | i-na šar-re-e | in the kingship |
| 7 | {uru}ka-lah₃ E₂-ni šu₂-u₂ | The city Kalaḫ is his house. |
| 8 | am-me-ni am-me-ni en-na | Why, why, until when? |
| 9 | AD-u₂-a | my father |
| 10 | u₂-maš-šer₃-an-na-ši | he shall remove. |
| 11 | a-na UGU mi-ni-i | Concerning what |
| 12 | hi x AD-u₂-a | ... my father(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 13 | ⸢im⸣-maš-x x+[x (x x)]-ra | Immaš...(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| r | ||
| 1' | ša₂ x+[x (x)] x ša₂ | of ...(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 2' | PAP ⸢x x (x) a | A total of .(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 3' | u₃ [x x]+x x x | and [......](very low confidence: a guess) |
| 4' | PAP ⸢en⸣-na-a AD-u₂-a | All this, my father.(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 5' | lu-še-bi-la | I shall send. |
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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