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VS 21, 05 (P281916)
Treaty, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | VS 21, 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P281916 |
| Museum no. | VAT 18051 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Treaty |
| 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' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢u₃ x⸣ {iri}kar-{giš}⸢TUKUL-{d⸣}[NIN.URTA] | ... Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta |
| 3' | [...] ⸢bi⸣-ra-a-te a-di A.AB.A [...] | ... the ēru-rāte-festival until the sea |
| 4' | [... ŠU-MIN-ia a]-⸢na⸣ ṣa-⸢ba-te⸣ u₂-ta-mi-⸢id x⸣ [...] | ... of my hands I have smeared with sulphur. |
| 5' | [...] ⸢la⸣ aṣ-ṣur ⸢i+na⸣ u₄-mi a-na {iri}⸢kar⸣-{[giš}TUKUL-{d}NIN.URTA] | ... the Assyrian, when to Kar-Tukultī-Ninurta |
| 6' | [...]-⸢x⸣-nu SAG EN-ia ⸢ta⸣-al-⸢ta-nap⸣-pa-⸢ra⸣ [...] | ... my lord ... ... |
| 7' | [...] EN{li} GIŠ.GAR₃-ka ⸢la⸣-a ⸢i+na⸣ še x x [...] | ... the owner of your work assignment ela-ea eina-e3 |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x⸣-ma-e e-li-u₂-ni {m}{d}⸢iš₈⸣-[tar₂-...] | ... the e’ema-priestess, above (the god) Ištar |
| 9' | [...]-⸢a it-ta⸣-lak {m}{giš}TUKUL{ti}{d}NIN.URTA [...] | ... went out, Tukulti-Ninurta |
| 10' | [...] u₃ ta ri il ta [...] | ... and ... |
| 11' | [... ṭe₂-ma] ⸢il⸣-ta-ka-an ma-a la aš₂-pur bi [...] | “You are the one who ... the Eiltakān, but I did not send ... |
| 12' | [...] ⸢i+na⸣ be-ru-un-ni lu tu-ta-ki-ir [...] | ... in the midst of(?) my lordly majesty you have cut off |
| 13' | [...] i+na be-ru-un-ni ⸢lu-u₂⸣ [...] | ... in the presence of the lord |
| 14' | [...] ⸢x⸣ il-ta-pa-ar ARAD-MEŠ ⸢EN⸣-[ia ...] | ... he has written, servants of my lord |
| 15' | [...]-⸢x⸣-u₂-ni ṭur-da be-ru-[un-ni ...] | ... his ..., his tburda rites |
| 16' | [...] ⸢x ta⸣ a-na pa-⸢an⸣ [...] | ... what did he bring to the assembly? |
| 17' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
Sources & licences
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