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BATSH 4, 18 (P282652)
Middle Assyrian, Dur-Katlimmu · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | BATSH 4, 18 |
|---|---|
| ID | P282652 |
| Museum no. | NMSDeZ 03387/1 |
| 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 Aplaya, my lord |
| 2 | ⸢ṭup⸣-pi₂ {m}{d}a-šur-MU-⸢le⸣-[šir₃ ARAD-ka] | A tablet of Assur-šumu-ēresvir, your servant. |
| 3 | ⸢ul-ta-ka⸣-in a-⸢na di⸣-[na-an] | In the olden days, when will I be able to judge? |
| 4 | EN-⸢ia at-ta-lak⸣ | my lord, I have gone |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [...] | |
| 7 | [...] | |
| 8 | [...] | |
| 9 | [...] | |
| 10 | [...] | |
| 11 | [...] | |
| 12 | [...] | |
| 13 | [...] | |
| 14 | [...] | |
| 15 | [...] | |
| 16 | [...] | |
| 17 | [...] | |
| 18 | [...] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 19 | [...]-ir-ta [...] | ... from ... |
| r | ||
| 20 | [x x x] DINGIR [x x x] | ... god ... |
| 21 | [x x x] x [x x x] | |
| 22 | [x x]-še-u₂ iš-tu [x x x] | ... from ... |
| 23 | id da su na-⸢ši⸣ [x x x] | the river next to the ... canal |
| 24 | ⸢šu-ub⸣-ta gab-ba u₂-ta-[x] | from all the wells ... |
| 25 | [x x] x [x] ri mar x [x] | ... ... |
| 26 | a-na na-ah-la-ni a-na lib₃-bi | for the naḫĺnu-disease inside |
| 27 | ša ⸢bu⸣-[u₂]-⸢ra⸣-a-te a-na lib₃-bi-⸢šu⸣ | of the ēbû-priests into his heart |
| 28 | [ha]-ap-⸢pa⸣-ni ša EN-ni | “I have sinned against my lord |
| 29 | u₂-⸢du⸣-u₂-ni il-li-ku-[(ni) iš]-tu | came, from |
| 30 | nu-[ku-ur-ti]-šu-nu-ma 10 ERIN₂-MEŠ | their nukurtu, and 10 people |
| 31 | [i+na] ⸢lib₃⸣-bi-šu-nu ni-⸢du-uk⸣ | in their midst we shall kill |
| 32 | [x]+5 ERIN₂-MEŠ bal-ṭu-te nu-⸢ṣa⸣-[bi-it] | x+5 living people, not released |
| 33 | [ERIN₂-MEŠ] bal-ṭu-te ša <la-a> nu-ṣa-bi-ta-ni | The living people whom we did not seize |
| 34 | [ni]-il-ta-ʾa-⸢al⸣-ma [x x x] | we shall go out and ... |
| 35 | [x-x]-šu-nu ma-a 75 [ERIN₂-MEŠ x x] | ..., saying: "75 people |
| 36 | [šu]-⸢ub⸣-ta gab-ba nu-[x x x x] | from the bottom of the whole ... |
| t.e. | ||
| 37 | [mi]-im-ma la-a [x x x] | nothing ... |
| 38 | ⸢ša⸣ EN-ia x [x x x] | my lord |
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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