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MARV 4, 017 (P312969)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 4, 017 |
|---|---|
| ID | P312969 |
| Museum no. | VAT 15543 |
| 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-i-din] | Aya-ena-ēde, Assur-iddin |
| 2 | ⸢qi₂-bi⸣-[ma] | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {m}mu-⸢šal-lim⸣-[...] | Thus (says) Mušallim- |
| 4 | ⸢ul⸣-ta-⸢ka-in⸣ [a-na ku-a-ša] | to you |
| 5 | E₂-⸢ka pa⸣-[hi]-ti-⸢ka⸣ [lu-u₂ šul-mu] | May your house and your courtyard be well |
| 6 | na-aš₂-per₂-ta ša ⸢x⸣ [...] | a message of ... ... |
| 7 | ⸢x⸣-ri-⸢x x⸣ [...] | “[... e]ri-e-x ... |
| 8 | i+na pi-ti {m}⸢x⸣-[...] | from the responsibility of ... |
| 9 | a-lik še-am ⸢x⸣ [...] | Go, ... barley |
| 10 | a-⸢na⸣ [...] | Aya-ena-e23 |
| b.e. | ||
| 11 | di-[...] | ... ... |
| 12 | ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 13 | še-am ki-i-mu ⸢x⸣-[...] | The barley like ... |
| 14 | ad ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [...] | ..., ... ... |
| 15 | ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x x x⸣ [...] | |
| 16 | ⸢x⸣ še-am ⸢x x x⸣ [...] | “The ... of the house, the barley of ... |
| 17 | a-na E₂ ⸢x x x⸣ [...] | to the house of ... |
| 18 | [...] | |
| 19 | u₄-ma [...] | When ... |
| 20 | a-na e-ri-[...] | to Eri- |
| 21 | EN še-am a-⸢x⸣-[...] | Lord, barley of the gods |
| 22 | DUMU x x [...] | son of |
| 23 | EN le-qi₂ [...] | Lord, take ... |
| t.e. | ||
| 24 | i-AD-qi₂ [...] | he will take |
| 25 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| l.e. | ||
| 26 | a-ba-ta la ṭa-ab-ta | Whoever does not seize (this tablet) |
| 27 | mi-im-ma la i-qa-bi-u₂ | they shall not say anything |
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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