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MARV 4, 137 (P283404)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 4, 137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283404 |
| Museum no. | VAT 20151 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (mod. Tulul al-ʿAqir) |
| Coordinates | 35.4944, 43.2793 |
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⸣-[...] | to Aya-ešur- |
| 2 | u₃ {m}{d}UTU-⸢x⸣-[...] | and Šamaš-e... |
| 3 | qi₂-bi-[ma] | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {m}{d}sal₂-ma-[nu-...] | Thus says Salmānu- |
| 5 | i+na a-bat LUGAL al-⸢tap⸣-[ra-ak-ku-nu] | I will send you at the command of the king. |
| 6 | {m}{d}UTU-MU-SUM{na} DUMU u₂-⸢x⸣-[...] | Shamash-šuma-iddina, son of U-e... |
| 7 | ERIN₂-MEŠ LUGAL 80 GU₄-⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | The king's troops 80 oxen |
| 8 | ša ne₂-pe-še ša ŠU {m}mu-šab-[ši] | The ritual in the hand of Mušabši |
| 9 | na-ši il-la-ka [...] | The one who brings (them) ... |
| 10 | i+na {iri}⸢kar⸣-{m}{giš}⸢TUKUL⸣{ti}{⸢d⸣}[NIN.URTA] | in Kar-Tukulti-Eštar |
| 11 | lu-u₂ us-⸢bu⸣-[...] | or weeping ... |
| 12 | u₄-um 1 ANŠE ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | On the day that 1 homer ... |
| 13 | i+na {giš}BAN₂ ša hi-⸢bur⸣-[ni] | (measured) by the seah of hi-ebur-ēni |
| 14 | ⸢u₃ 22 x⸣ [...] | “The 22nd, the 23rd |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | ⸢x x x⸣ [...] | |
| 16 | ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 17 | ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 18 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 19 | {m}[...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... e22-e23 |
| 20 | {m}[...] | PN |
| 21 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 22 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 23 | ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 24 | a-na ⸢x x x x x⸣ [...] | to ... |
| 25 | GU₄-MEŠ a-na ⸢x x x⸣ [...] | oxen for |
| 26 | pa-aq-du ⸢x x⸣ [...] | are entrusted to ... |
| 27 | e-[...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | E-[...] |
| 28 | ⸢x x x x⸣ [...] | |
| 29 | ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ ŠU GU₄ [...] | ... ... hand of an ox |
| 30 | na-aṣ-ṣa ⸢x⸣ [...] | The one who ... the eša temple |
| 31 | {iti}qar-ra-a-⸢tu⸣ [U₄ x-KAM₂] | Qarrātu, [x-th day] |
| t.e. | ||
| 32 | li-⸢mu⸣ {m}{d}be-⸢er⸣-[...] | Li-emu-e, E-ere-[...] |
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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