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KAV 097 (P285571)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | KAV 097 |
|---|---|
| ID | P285571 |
| Museum no. | VAT 11187 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| 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 | ||
| 0' | [a-na {m}... qi₂-bi-ma um-ma {m}...] | Speak to PN, thus says PN |
| 1' | [ma-an-nu IGI-MEŠ-ka SIG₅ le]-mur da-⸢ba-ba⸣ | Who can see your good eyes? |
| 2' | [ṭa-ba ša] ⸢EN⸣-ia liš-me | May the word of my lord be heard |
| 3' | ⸢a⸣-na DUMU.MUNUS MAN šul₃-mu | Eana, daughter of the king, is well. |
| 4' | [... a]-⸢na E₂⸣ UN-MEŠ DUMU-MEŠ | ... the temple, the people, the sons |
| 5' | [... E₂].⸢GAL⸣ šul-mu | ... the palace is well |
| 6ʹ | [...] ⸢x x x x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1'' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2'' | [...] ⸢man⸣-da-at-⸢ti⸣ [...] | ... emanat-etī-e3 |
| 3'' | [...] uru si ki si an [x x x] | ... city ... earth |
| 4'' | [...] u₂-sa-na-ʾi-da [x x x] | ... he filled with ... |
| 5'' | [...] a-da-gal iš-tu {m}da-da-ia | ... I am constantly seeking out from Dadaya |
| 6'' | [...] ⸢a⸣-na {iri}ŠA₃-URU ta-($erasure$)-lik | ... you marched to the city Šua-Uruk |
| 7'' | [a]-⸢na⸣-ku la-a a-lik | I did not go. |
| 8'' | [...] i+na ša-lim-te e-li-a | ... up to the horizon |
| 9'' | [...] ⸢x i⸣ [x x] ⸢a ma x x x⸣ | ... ... |
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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