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MARV 7, 029 (P416770)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | MARV 7, 029 |
|---|---|
| ID | P416770 |
| Museum no. | VAT 20986 |
| 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-lēšir |
| 2 | GAL gi-na-⸢e⸣ | chief of the regular offerings, |
| 3 | qi₂-bi-⸢ma⸣ | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {m}mu-dam-⸢me⸣-[eq-{d}EN-ma] | Thus Mudammeq-Bēl: |
| 5 | la-a i+na a-ba-⸢ti⸣-[ia] | not in my father’s house |
| 6 | i+na a-bat ⸢MAN⸣ [...] | at the command of the king |
| 7 | iš-⸢tu⸣ [...] | The second ... |
| 8 | a-⸢ma⸣ [...] | Aya-ema’e |
| 9 | 5 ANŠE [...] | 5 donkey(s) |
| 10 | ⸢ŠE⸣.[...] | The ešû-priest |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ERIN₂ [...] | ... troops ... |
| 2' | ⸢x x x⸣ ki ⸢x⸣ [...] | “Where ... is, where is ...? |
| 3' | ka-il [...] | “The one who holds ... |
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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