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MARV 8, 49 (P416709)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 8, 49 |
|---|---|
| ID | P416709 |
| Museum no. | VAT 20437 |
| 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 | ||
| 1 | a-na {m}ez-bu-⸢SI.SA₂⸣ | to Ezbu-ešir |
| 2 | qi₂-⸢bi⸣-[ma] | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {m}⸢ga-x-x⸣ | thus Ega-: |
| 4 | a-na ia-a-⸢ši⸣ [šul-mu] | to Yaya-ešî is well |
| 5 | a-na ku-<a>-ša [E₂-ka dan-niš] | To you, your great temple |
| 6 | ⸢lu-u₂⸣ [šul-mu] | elû-e-šulmu-plant |
| 7 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 8 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 9 | [a]-na ⸢x⸣ [...] | to ... |
| 10 | ⸢it-tal⸣-[ka ...] | |
| 11 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 12 | [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 13 | [...] | |
| 14 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 15 | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ⸢x⸣ sa ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢en⸣ | |
| 17 | ⸢x⸣ a-na UGU {m}u₂-⸢di⸣-[e] | against Udî |
| 18 | [la]-a tal-[la]-ka | you will not come. |
| r | ||
| 19 | [x] pa-hu-tu | x calves |
| 20 | [ša {m]}⸢DINGIR⸣-pa-da [a-na] | of Ilu-epada to |
| 21 | [pa]-⸢he⸣-[te] ⸢ša {m⸣}DINGIR-pa-da | “Pa’eḫēte, son of Ili-pada, |
| 22 | [x x] ⸢x it-ta⸣-al-ka | ... has come out |
| 23 | [u₃] ⸢la⸣-a ⸢u₂⸣-ṣi | and the ela-ea-plant, its ešu-plant |
| 24 | [x] ⸢x⸣ ma-a EN pa-he-te | ... the governor |
| 25 | [x x] ⸢x u₂⸣-la-⸢a⸣ | ... ela-ea-e3 |
| 26 | [x x] i ab ta | ... ... |
| 27 | [...] ⸢x⸣ la-a tal-li-⸢ip⸣ | ... you will not be able to open (it) |
| 28 | [x x] ⸢x⸣ a-na-i-ni | why |
| 29 | {⸢dug}šap⸣-pu-ra | a jar of wine |
| 30 | šum-ma DUMU KIN-ka ta-u₂-ra | If your messenger returns |
| 31 | ra-qu-te-šu-u₂ | his limbs |
| 32 | u₂-ta-ra-šu | he shall return. |
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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