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KAM 7, 149 (P417680)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | KAM 7, 149 |
|---|---|
| ID | P417680 |
| Museum no. | Ist A 00873 + VAT 01947 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 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}li-bur-EN EN-ia | To Libūr-bēli, my lord: |
| 2 | ṭup-pi {m}bu-ni-ia ARAD-ka | Tablet of Buniya, your servant. |
| 3 | ul-ta-ka-in a-na di-na-an | I do obeisance, I go ever as a substitute. |
| 4 | EN-ia at-ta-lak | I have gone to my lord. |
| 5 | iš-tu U₄ 17KAM₂ ERIN₂-MEŠ ša pil-[ka-a-ni] | From the 17th day the troops of the work assignment |
| 6 | gab-be 1 lim-ma-ia-u₂ ul ma-[ṭi₂] | All the kings, my ancestors, are not equal. |
| 7 | a-di pil-ka-a-ni SUMUN-MEŠ | as far as the old plough |
| 8 | ša iš-tu na-ha-al-te-en | that from the naḫaltû-demon |
| 9 | a-di {iri}lib₃-bi-URU a-na ša-ha-[ṭi₂] | as far as the Inner City to Šaḫat |
| 10 | i-ti-bi-u₂ i+na U₄ 21⸢KAM₂⸣ | On the 21st day |
| 11 | {m}{d}a-šur-EN-DINGIR-MEŠ{ni} u₃ {m}{d}⸢EN⸣-[...] | Assur-bel-ilāni and E22-Bel-e23-[...] |
| 12 | i-tal-ku-u₂-ni | came, |
| 13 | u₂ pil-ka-a-ni | and his work assignment |
| 14 | ša u₂-ta-hi-ru | that they have returned |
| 15 | [ki pi-i ša] EN-ia | according to the word of my lord |
| t.e. | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢ša⸣ al-ta-ap-ru-ni | I have written to you |
| r | ||
| 3' | i+na pil-ka-a-ni ša ŠEŠ-MEŠ | In the ritual of the šapik-priests |
| 4' | 1 ME-TA.AM₃ ERIN₂-MEŠ us-bu | 100 each of the troops stationed |
| 5' | 10TA.AM₃ ERIN₂-ka 1 u₂-ka-lu | 10 each of your troops will eat one. |
| 6' | pil-ka-a-nu ša bat-tu-bat-te-en | “Palace of the reed-beds, |
| 7' | e-ta-aṣ-bu-u₂-ni ul | he has not spoken, |
| 8' | pil-ku ša EN-⸢ia⸣ | The ritual of Bēl-ēriya’e |
| 9' | [u₃ pa-ha]-⸢tu⸣-ka i-tu-ru-u₂ | and your assembly returned |
| 10' | EN{li} ⸢šul⸣-ma-na-ka ar-hiš₂ | the lord of the E-svul-e-ma-na |
| 11' | li-qiš lu-še-bi-la | let him entrust (it) to me |
| 12' | KIN a-na la re-hi-ka | [Month] VI, to the one who does not have you. |
| 13' | i-di-ʾa u₃ [...] | Iddin-Anu and |
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