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KAV 169 (P281750)
Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | KAV 169 |
|---|---|
| ID | P281750 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08748 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Find spot | Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) |
| Coordinates | 35.4557, 43.2611 |
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-F, 2026-10-17), 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 {m}ub-ri | to Ubru |
| 2 | qi₂-bi-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-⸢ma {m}{d⸣}aš+šur-IGI{ni}ma | Thus (says) Assur-lamur: |
| 4 | {m}{d}a-šur-IBILA-KAM | Assur-apla-ēriš, |
| 5 | im-tah-ra-a-ni | received. |
| 6 | ma-a la hab-bu-la-ku | “I am not a thief |
| 7 | u₃ la sa-la-ku bi-it-⸢qe-ia ib-ta-<ta>-taq⸣ | And he has not been able to take my handiwork. |
| 8 | na-aš₂-pe-er-ti | a gift |
| 9 | ul-te-bi-la-ku | I have sent you. |
| 10 | a-na-i-ni | why |
| 11 | la ta-li-ka | do not come! |
| 12 | i+na de-ni-ka | In your lawsuit |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | la ta-ad-bu-ub | do not speak! |
| 14 | šum₂-ma ša-ni-ta | If that man |
| r | ||
| 15 | ṭup-pi₂ ul-te-bi-[lak-ku] | I have sent you my tablet. |
| 16 | še-bu-⸢te-ka u₃ mi-im-ma⸣ | Your limbs and everything |
| 17 | ⸢ša a-na da-ba-bi-ka⸣ | to speak to you |
| 18 | ⸢il-lu-ku-u₂-ni⸣ | Illukuni |
| 19 | ⸢le-qi-a al-ka⸣ | “Lead me! Come out! |
| 20 | i+na di-ni-[ka du]-⸢ub⸣-bu | During your trial, may it go up. |
| 21 | šum₂-⸢ma⸣ la [ta-li]-⸢ka⸣ | Do not go out to the open country |
| 22 | a-na ⸢ṣa⸣-[ba]-⸢ti⸣-ka ERIN₂-MEŠ | To the ša-eba-eti-eka troops |
| 23 | al-⸢tap-ra⸣-[ku] | I have sent to you. |
| 24 | i-ṣa-⸢bu-tu-ka⸣ | Išbatu |
| 25 | {iti}al-la-⸢na-tu U₄ 24KAM₂⸣ | Month Allanātu, 24th day, eponymy of Nabû-šarru-uṣur. |
| 26 | li-mu {m}{d}A-šur-SUM-IBILA | Eponymy of Assur-nādin-aple. |
Sources & licences
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