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RIMB 1.nn (P498075)

Official or display, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE

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Designation	RIMB 1.nn
ID	P498075
Museum no.	BM 096947
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
Genre	Official or display
Find spot	Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat)
Coordinates	35.4557, 43.2611

Transliteration (ATF)

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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)
obverse
1	{disz}{d}amar-utu-na-din-szesz-mesz _dub-sar lugal_	Marduk-nadin-ahhē, the royal scribe
2	_dumu_ {d}amar-utu-ti-la _dumu_ usz-szur-a-na-{d}amar-utu	son of Marduk-balāṭu, son of Uššar-ana-Marduk
3	ki-rib-ti _dingir_ u _lugal_ asz-ru na-a'-du	The cult center of god and king, the place of reverence.
4	mu-t,i-ib _sza3_-bi _en_-szu	who soothes the heart of his lord
5	_e2_ sza ina _gissu e2_ {d}amar-utu	the house which in the house of Marduk
6	_en_-ia u2-ki-in-nu-ma	my lord established, and
7	_pu2 a_ ka#!-s,u-ti	a well, water of the kasûtu
8	ina _sza3_-bi-szu ap-tu-u2	in his heart I opened
9	ina ne-me-qi2 s,i-ri	By the exalted wisdom
10	sza {d}amar-utu _en_-ia	of Marduk, my lord
11	lah3-ma _an-gub_-szu _gal_-esz lu ul-ta-szib	he was ill, and his stand was great he did not dwell.
12	_e2-mesz_ a-gur2-ri szu-pa-lu-usz-szu	the houses of baked bricks to its full extent
13	sza ma-am-ma la i-i-da	that nobody knows
14	ina hi-is-[sa]-at ne-me-qi2	with the help of wisdom
15	ma-de-esz lu ul-te-es,-bi	I have made it very clear to me.
16	_e2_ a-na _nigin_-ti-szu	a house in its entirety
17	_ge6-par3-mesz_-szu u _dag-mesz_-szu	his ‘ghost’ and his captives
18	ab-ni u2-szek2-lil	he made his foundations firm.
reverse
1	[li]-il-li# ul u2-[(x)]-sze-er-[(x)]-szi	He should come, but he should not ... her.
2	[{d}]amar-utu be-li _e2_ sza-a-tu li-mur-ma	May Marduk, my lord, see that temple and
3	[a]-na# ma-na-ah-ti-ia li-qi2#-sza	May he give her to my debts.
4	a-na _dumu-mesz_-ia a-na _dumu-mesz dumu-mesz_-ia	to my sons and my grandchildren
5	a-na _numun-mesz_-ia u _numun numun-mesz_-ia	to my descendants and my descendants
6	a-[na] ah#-ra-ti li-ki-in-nam-ma	May it be established for future generations.
7	[pa-la]-ah# {d}amar-utu _en_-ia u {d}s,ar-pa-ni-ti _gaszan_-ia	who reveres Marduk, my lord, and Ṣarpanitu, my lady,
8	[a-na-ku] u3 ki-im-ti	I and the whole
9	[a-na _u4_] s,a-ti i ni-pu-usz	in the future we will do.
10	[qin-ni?] u3 _e2-mesz_ sza ab-bi-ia	my family and the houses of my father
11	[sza] nu-ul-la-ti le-qu-u2	Whoever takes (this tablet) away will be compensated.
12	[ma-ma]-an-ma i+na qi2-bit {d}amar-utu _en_-ia	Whoever by the command of Marduk, my lord
13	[a-na kit]-ti lu-u2-te-er-ra	I shall return to truth.
14	[{d}amar-utu] be-li a-na {disz}{d}a-szur-ti-la	Marduk, my lord, to Assur-tila
15	[ra]-'i#-mi-ia _lugal kisz en_-ia	my love, the king of the world, my lord
16	_u4#-[mesz] ar-ku-ti	long days
17	_en#_ t,uh-di u3 _he2-gal2_-li3	lord of abundance and abundance
18	li-isz-ru-uk-szu	may he grant him.

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