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BATSH 4, 16 (P282650)
Middle Assyrian, Dur-Katlimmu · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | BATSH 4, 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P282650 |
| Museum no. | NMSDeZ 03292 |
| Collection | National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Find spot | Dur-Katlimmu (mod. Tall Shekh Hamad) |
| Coordinates | 35.6463, 40.7436 |
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]}{d}a-šur-[i-din] ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | To Assur-iddin, my lord |
| 2 | [ṭup]-⸢pi⸣ {m}šul-me ⸢ARAD⸣-[ka] | Tablet of Šulmu, your servant. |
| 3 | [ul]-ta-ka-in a-na di-na-an | I do obeisance. Give it to me! |
| 4 | ⸢EN⸣-ia at-ta-lak | I went with my lord. |
| 5 | AN.BAR ⸢ša⸣ EN{li} GAG.U₂.⸢TAG.GA⸣-MEŠ | The iron of the eša’e-plant, the lord of the iron cones. |
| 6 | a-na e-pa-še i-di-na-ni | for manufacturing he gave to me |
| 7 | 20 GAG.U₂.TAG.GA-MEŠ | 20 breast-bones |
| 8 | i+na lib₃-bi-šu e-ta-pa-aš₂ | from his heart he has made |
| 9 | li-ša-na ⸢ša⸣ AN.BAR | May he be the one who makes iron |
| 10 | ⸢ša⸣ EN{li} ha-ṭa | the lord who has sinned |
| 11 | [a]-⸢na⸣ e-pa-še | to do |
| 12 | [i]-⸢di⸣-na-ni | he shall replace it |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | [a]-⸢na⸣ ha-a-ṭe₂ | he has sinned |
| 14 | [a]-⸢na⸣ e-pa-še | to do |
| 15 | la i-lak | he will not go |
| r | ||
| 16 | ⸢u₄⸣-ma {m}{d}UTU-KAR{ni} | When Šamaš-šēzibanni |
| 17 | ⸢e⸣-ri-ša-a-ni ma-a | “The eirišāni |
| 18 | ⸢bi⸣-i-⸢la⸣ a-na GAG.U₂.TAG.GA-MEŠ | for the breast-bones |
| 19 | ⸢le⸣-pu-uš ba-lu EN-ia | “It is enough, my lord! |
| 20 | pal-ha-ku a-na ta-da-ni | I am afraid to give. |
| 21 | ki-i ša EN{li} i-ša-pa-⸢ra-ni⸣ | as the lord will send to me |
| 22 | AN.BAR ṣe-eh-⸢ra⸣ | iron šbeḫ-iron |
| 23 | ⸢ša⸣ EN{li} i-di-na-ni | the lord who gave it, |
| 24 | ⸢a⸣-na ma-hi-te a-na | he received it. |
| 25 | [e]-⸢pa⸣-še la i-lak | does not go out |
| 26 | [ha]-⸢ra⸣-na i+na U₄ 5KAM₂ | He shall have the usufruct of it on the 5th day. |
| 27 | [u₂]-⸢qa⸣-u₂ AN.BAR la-⸢aš₂⸣-šu | The iron kettledrum is not available. |
| 28 | [am-mar] ⸢ša⸣ i+na pi-te-[ka] | as much as the ēšû-plant in your responsibility |
| t.e. | ||
| 29 | [i-ba-aš₂]-ši-u₂-ni | there is |
| 30 | [u₂-še]-⸢e⸣-la-šu-nu | they shall remove them |
| 31 | [...] x i [...] | ... ... |
| l.e. | ||
| 32 | {iti}[...] | Month “ |
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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