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BVW, H (P282447)
Recipe or Instruction, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | BVW, H |
|---|---|
| ID | P282447 |
| Museum no. | VAT 14425 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Recipe or Instruction |
| 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' | [... x] IKU A.ŠA₃ il-[lu-ku ...] | ... x ikû field they will run ... |
| 2' | [... x] A-MEŠ ta-ša-qi₂ ka-[na-ma-ri ...] | ... ... you will give water to drink; the kānāru-festival ... |
| 3' | [... ta]-⸢ra⸣-kas 1 be-er 1/2 A.ŠA₃ ⸢il⸣-[lu-ku ...] | ... you will harness (them). 1 double-hour, 1/2 mina of field Elukku |
| 4' | [... ta-pa]-ṭar tu-ṣa-rah tu-ṣa-a-ap iz-za-zu [...] | ... you will unharness (them), you will rub, you will wipe clean, they will stand |
| 5' | [...]-nu e-ku-lu A-MEŠ ta-ša-qi₂ si [...] | ... they will eat. You will give water to drink |
| 6' | [...]-nu e-ku-lu šum-ma ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ a-⸢na⸣ [...] | ... they will eat. If horses |
| 7' | [U₂-MEŠ ma-la ṣi]-⸢ib⸣-te-ma tu-ra-da-šu-nu [e-ku-lu] | They will eat the plants as much as you wish. |
| 8' | [... a-na hu-li] ta-ra-kas 2{šu} [hu-la i+na ṭu-be-ka] | you will harness (them) for the road. The second time when you speak of the road |
| 9' | [ma-la si-ip-sa-te] ⸢ta⸣-la-bi ta-pa-ṭar ⸢tu⸣-[ṣa-rah tu-ṣa-ap] | You will unharness (them) as much as the horns of the ēta-ela-bi-plant, and you will rub (it). |
| 10' | [...] ta-ra-kas [...] | ... you will harness ... |
| r | ||
| 1'' | [... ma-la si-ip-sa-te ta-la-bi] | ... as much as the poles you will cover. |
| 2'' | [... x] IKU A.ŠA₃ [il-lu-ku] | x ikû field they will run |
Sources & licences
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- 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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