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KAR 081 (P369062)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | KAR 081 |
|---|---|
| ID | P369062 |
| Museum no. | VAT 10572 + VAT 10852 + VAT 10615 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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 i | ||
| l_col_1' | [... pa-ši]-⸢ra-ku⸣ | ... the pašīrakû priest |
| l_col_2' | [... UŠ₁₁.BUR₂].⸢DA⸣.KAM₂ | ..., the first part of the night, |
| l_col_3' | [... {u₂]}⸢AN.ḪUL₂.LU₂⸣ | ... anḫullû-plant |
| l_col_4' | [... {u₂]}⸢AD⸣.[SAG] KEŠ₂-ar₂ | You tie ... ēšu-juniper |
| l_col_5' | [...] ⸢GU₂-šu₂⸣ GAR-an | You place ... on his neck |
| l_col_6' | [...] ⸢GAL⸣.MEŠ | ... palaces |
| l_col_7' | [...] GAL.MEŠ | ... great |
| l_col_8' | [... A].⸢GUB₂⸣.BA ⸢el⸣-li | elû-plant |
| l_col_9' | [...] {d}zar-pa-ni-tum | ... Zarpanitum |
| l_col_10' | [...] NUMUN-ia | ... my seed |
| l_col_11' | [...] x-x | |
| o ii | ||
| r_col_1' | ... x-x x-x-[x]-x ⸢u e-piš-ti u₂⸣-[pa-aš₂-ša₂-ru] ; ru-ḫe-e ⸢ḪUL⸣.[MEŠ] | ... e’u-plant, plant of epaššaru-tree, ruḫbê-plant (and) ehlul-plant |
| r_col_2' | ina ⸢ma⸣-ḫar {d}UTU da-a-a-an ⸢UN⸣.[MEŠ] | In the “Šamaš, judge of the ēšî-disease |
| r_col_3' | ša₂ ina ⸢ID₂⸣ im-lu-u₂ lu-u₂ ⸢IM⸣-[ša₂] | Whoever in the river or in the steppe breaks (the contract) |
| r_col_4' | ša₂ ina {⸢giš⸣}IG is-lu-pu lu-u₂ x-[x-x] | who in the door jambs ... |
| r_col_5' | ⸢ša₂⸣ ina ⸢ḫur⸣-ri iš-du-du lu-u₂ mu-ša₂-⸢ṭi⸣-[ša₂] | The ešû-plant grows in the ḫurru-vegetable garden or its branches |
| r_col_6' | ⸢ša₂⸣ ina SILA iš-bu-šu lu-u₂ SAḪAR GIR₃{⸢ii⸣}[ša₂] | (If) a pig is born in a street: either he will die of hunger. |
| r_col_7' | ša₂ ina qaq-qa-ri ik-pu-ru lu-u₂ ⸢ru⸣-[us-sa] | who wrote in the ground, may it be its e’ussa |
| r_col_8' | ša₂ ina E₂.GAR₈ iḫ-⸢lu⸣-šu lu-u₂ ⸢E₂⸣-[sa] | Whoever in the wall breaks it, whether in the temple of her father |
| r_col_9' | ša₂ ina E₂ {lu₂}AZLAG iš-šu-u₂ lu-u₂ ⸢TUG₂⸣-[sa] | Whoever in the house of the exorcist, whether it is an e’eša priest |
| r_col_10' | ša₂ ib-tu-qu ⸢lu⸣-u₂ TUG₂.⸢SIK₂⸣-[ša₂] | that one has fallen, the elû-priest's hem |
| r_col_11' | ša₂ ina da-ba-bi TI-⸢u₂ lu⸣-u ⸢da⸣-[ba-ab-ti ...] | Whom in a lawsuit (or) litigation may he or she seize(?) |
| r_col_12' | u SIK₂ SAG.⸢DU⸣-ša₂ {u₂}IGI-lim lim-ḫa-⸢aṣ⸣ [...] | and the hair of its head (with) imhur-līm-plant, may it be sown(?) |
| r_col_13' | {⸢giš⸣}GAN.⸢U₅⸣ lu-pa-aš₂-ši-ra ⸢kiš⸣-[pi-ša₂] | Let me tear out the ešû-tree (and) its eponymy |
| r_col_14' | {⸢giš}eli-kul-la li-ter⸣ INIM-sa ana [...] | May the ēlikulla-plant return its word to |
| r_col_15' | [... li]-⸢paṭ⸣-ṭi-ra ki-ṣir ki-pid ⸢ŠA₃⸣-[ša₂] | ... may he smite ..., the ditch, the canal of his ešû-priest |
| r_col_16' | [...] ⸢UŠ₁₁⸣.BUR₂.DA.⸢KAM⸣ | ... UŠv.E.BUR.DA.E22e23 |
| r_col_17' | [DU₃.DU₃.BI] ⸢ina⸣ <...> ša₂ U₄.NA₂.AM₃ {dug}A.GUB₂.BA [GIN-an] | Its ritual: you set up an agubbû-vessel on the morning of the morning. |
| r_col_18' | [x-x-x-x] ⸢NIG₂⸣.NA {šim}LI GAR-an KAŠ.⸢SAG⸣ [BAL-qi₂] | You set up a censer of juniper. You libate first-rate beer. |
| r_col_19' | [x x x x] x [x x] x x {u₂}⸢tul-lal⸣ [...] | ... etullal plant |
| r_col_20' | [...] x [...] | |
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