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MARV 4, 015 (P312967)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 4, 015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P312967 |
| Museum no. | VAT 15542 |
| 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 {f}⸢ša⸣-{d}u₂-mi₃-i-tu-ni-nu | to E-ša-e-Umi-ituninu |
| 2 | qi₂-bi-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {m}{d}30EN-⸢ke⸣-tu-⸢ma⸣ | Thus says Sin-bel-kēttu-emâ. |
| 4 | a-na ⸢ku-a⸣-[ši] ⸢lu⸣ šul-mu | To Ekua-eši, the holy elû priest |
| 5 | ⸢x x x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [x]-ma | “E... ... e23 ... and |
| 6 | [...] ab ⸢li⸣ [...] | ... the water of the eli river |
| 7 | ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ ša mi [x] | ... the ... of ... |
| 8 | [x x] ⸢e⸣ ri ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... the temple, the ... temple |
| 9 | [x x]-⸢a⸣-ta [...] | ... from ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ SILA₃ [...] | ... a qû |
| 2' | [x x] SILA₃ SILA₃ [...] | ... qû ... |
| 3' | ⸢ni⸣-pu-⸢ul⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | ⸢la⸣-a ni-pu-⸢uš⸣ [x] | we did not build |
| 5' | šul-ma-an-ki | Šulmanki |
| 6' | šu-up-ri lib₃-bi | Hand of the Heart |
| 7' | [x x]-⸢ri⸣ za-a-ki | ... is cleared |
| 8' | da-an-ni-iš | strong |
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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