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MARV 4, 024 (P312975)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 4, 024 |
|---|---|
| ID | P312975 |
| Museum no. | VAT 15502 |
| 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' | [...] ⸢i+na lib₃-bi⸣-ka | ... in your house |
| 2' | ⸢la-a ša⸣-ak-na-ta | From the lower part of the womb |
| 3' | per₂-ru i-ka-aš₂-ša-da | he will measure out the deficit. |
| 4' | la-a-aš₂-šu la-a-aš₂-šu ta-sa-si | There is none, there is none. You recite |
| 5' | [ma a]-⸢na⸣ ma-am-ma ša-ni-em-ma | “Anyone else |
| 6' | [x] ⸢la-a ta⸣-e-ra-an-ni | ... why did you approach me? |
| 7' | [x] ⸢x x⸣ [x] ša LUGAL | ... of the king |
| 8' | ⸢x⸣ [x ta]-ad-na-ma | it is given and |
| 9' | [ša x x] ⸢x ma-la ZI₃.DA⸣ | of ... as much flour as the flour |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | ⸢ša pi⸣-i ṭup-⸢pi⸣ | It is the mouth of a tablet |
| 11' | ba-[at]-qi | he took. |
| r | ||
| 12' | um-ta-aṭ-⸢ṭi₂⸣-u₂-ni | he has sworn. |
| 13' | la-a u₂-bal-la-su | he shall not return him. |
| 14' | ⸢ša⸣ 1 ME 50 ZI₃.DA | 150 (homers) of flour |
| 15' | [x] ⸢x⸣ bat-qu ša muh-hi-ka | ... the damage that is upon you |
| 16' | [... ta]-⸢ṭe₂⸣-e-en | ... you will approach. |
| 17' | [...] iš-tu 1 SILA₃ ZI₃.DA | ... from 1 qû of flour |
| 18' | [ša še]-⸢lu-u₂⸣-i-ka | of Šēlu-ēlika |
| 19' | [la-a u₂]-⸢bal⸣-la-aṭ-ka | “It is not yours, |
| 20' | [x x x]-u₂-ṣur il tu ZI₃.DA | ...-uṣur flour |
| 21' | [bi]-la | brought. |
| 22' | [...] ⸢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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