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MARV 8, 50 (P283478)
Administrative, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 8, 50 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283478 |
| Museum no. | VAT 20264 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| 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 | 3 ME 11 ANŠE 2 BAN₂ še-um-[MEŠ] | 311 homers 2 seahs of barley |
| 2 | 2 ANŠE⸣ 8 SILA₃ LAL₃-⸢MEŠ⸣ | 2 imāru 8 qû of honey, |
| 3 | [...] ⸢ANŠE 9 BAN₂ ŠE.GIŠ.I₃⸣-MEŠ | ... homers 9 seahs of sesame |
| 4 | ⸢x+24 ANŠE ⸢x+1 BAN₂⸣ a-za-am-ru | x+24 homers of fruit, x+1 seah of fruit |
| 5 | gi-⸢na⸣-u₂ ⸢ša⸣ E₂ ⸢aš+šur⸣ | The reed-beds, the ša’e-house, the temple of Assur |
| 6 | iš-tu li-me {m}{d}MAŠ-SUM-IBILA | From the eponymy of Ninurta-nādin-aple |
| 7 | [a]-di li-me {m}iš-tu-aš+⸢šur⸣-a-⸢šam⸣-šu | as far as the eponymy of Ištu-asvur-ea-emašam-eşvu |
| 8 | [ša] 3 MU⸣-MEŠ{te} | of 3 years |
| 9 | [x x x] {m}ez-bu-⸢SI.SA₂⸣ | ... Ezbu-el-lešir |
| 10 | [GAL] ⸢gi-na-e⸣ | chief of the ginae temples |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x-hap₂ i⸣+na-[x x] | ... he made ... |
| 2' | [u₃] ṭup-pu-[šu] | and his tablet |
| 3' | [i]-hap-⸢pi⸣ | he shall break |
| 4' | [...] še-um-MEŠ ⸢ša i+na⸣ [ŠU] | ... barley rations, in the hand |
| 5' | {[m}{d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU-ia {lu₂}MA₂.[LAH₅] | Ea-Marduk-ešaya, the sailor |
| 6' | [mah]-ru-u₂-ni i+na ŠA₃-⸢šu⸣ [la ka-me-er] | It is not written down in its original. |
| 7' | IGI {⸢m⸣}SAG-{d}a-šur SANGA ša {d}[...] | Witness: Šamaš-Assur, priest of |
| 8' | [IGI] {⸢m⸣}{d}a-nu-⸢KAR{ni⸣} SANGA ⸢x⸣ [...] | Witness: Anu-eṭirni, priest of |
| 9' | ⸢IGI {m⸣}ARAD-{d}a-šur {lu₂}a-⸢lah₂⸣-[hi-nu] | Witness: Warad-Assur, smith |
| 10' | [IGI] {m}gab-bi-ia KAŠ.LUL | Witness Gabbia, cupbearer. |
| 11' | ⸢IGI {m}x-x⸣-de-ni-e I₃.DU₈ ša₂ E₂ aš+šur | Witness: -denî, gatekeeper of the Assyrian temple. |
| 12' | {[iti]}⸢ša⸣-sa-ra-a-te ša tar-ṣi {⸢iti}BARA₂⸣ | (In) the third month of Nisannu |
| 13' | [U₄ x]-⸢KAM₂⸣ li-mu {m}iš-tu-aš+šur-a-⸢šam-šu⸣ | x-e23th day, eponymy of Ištu-assur-aḫamsvu. |
| 14' | ⸢x x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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