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WVDOG 152, V 1 004 (P514137)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	WVDOG 152, V 1 004
ID	P514137
Museum no.	IM 124703
Collection	National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 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-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
o
1	IM {m}{d}PA-LAL-a-ni	Tablet of Nabû-taqqinanni.
2	a-na {m}BAD₃-aš-šur	to Dūrī-Assur
3	lu DI-mu ana EN-ia₂	Good health to my lord!
4	DI-mu a-lak-tu₂	The road is well.
5	ŠA₃-ba-ka lu DUG₃.⸢GA⸣	May your heart be glad.
6	TA E₂ {m}DUG₃-IM-pa-[pa-hi]	from the house of Ṭab-šar-papaḫi
7	u₂-na-me-ša₂-⸢ni⸣	they shall remove.(lower confidence: line is broken)
8	a-na-ku an-na-⸢ka⸣	I here(low confidence: few signs survive)
9	GEŠTIN a-zi-⸢bil⸣	He drinks wine.(low confidence: few signs survive)
10	{m}aš-šur-KUR-LAL-⸢in⸣	Ashur-matu-taqqin,(lower confidence: line is broken)
11	ina {kur}za-ma-[hu]	in Zamaḫu(lower confidence: line is broken)
12	e-⸢te-bir⸣	crossed over.(low confidence: few signs survive)
13	18 [UD].MEŠ	18 days(low confidence: few signs survive)
b.e.
14	ina ŠA₃-⸢bi⸣	therein(low confidence: few signs survive)
r
1	nam-me-še ⸢iq⸣-[ṭi-bi ki]	Then he spoke: “Where(lower confidence: line is broken)
2	GEŠTIN ina UGU [ID₂]	wine on the river(low confidence: few signs survive)
3	[is]-si-qu-u-[ni]	they have plundered.(lower confidence: line is broken)
4	⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃-bi	therein(low confidence: few signs survive)
5	⸢a⸣-ta-ma-⸢ra⸣	And he speaks:(low confidence: few signs survive)
6	⸢ki⸣-i a-lak-tu₂	When the road(lower confidence: line is broken)
7	01-en ša₂ la-šu-u-[ni]	One that is not there.(lower confidence: line is broken)
8	⸢i⸣-ha-iš is-⸢se⸣-[niš]	he drinks together.(lower confidence: line is broken)
9	[UD-x]-KAM₂ i-[ti-qu-ni]	They crossed over on the [x]th.
10	⸢GEŠTIN⸣ ina UGU [ID₂]	wine on the river(low confidence: few signs survive)
11	la sa-[qa]	not heaped up(low confidence: few signs survive)
12	dul-lu la e-pa-aš₂	He does not do the work.
13	90 ŠE.PAD.MEŠ	90 rations
t.e.
14	ša₂ ina ŠA₃-URU	which in the city
15	i-MI₃-nu-ni	he smote
16	riq-qa₃-an
l.e.
1	50 ⸢ŠE⸣.[PAD.MEŠ x]-x ⸢x⸣ [x x x]-šu₂	50 barley rations(lower confidence: line is broken)
2	ina bat-ba-te TUG₂.⸢MEŠ i-te⸣-li	He went down to the back of the garment.
env o
1	IM {m}{d}PA-LAL-in-a-ni	Tablet of Nabû-taqqinanni.
2	a-na {m}BAD₃-aš-šur lu DI-mu ana EN-ia₂	[To] Dūrī-Ašṣur: [Good health] to my lord!
env b.e.
3	DI-mu a-lak-tu₂ ŠA₃-ba-ka lu DUG₃.GA-ka	The road is well; you can be glad.
env r
1	ku-zip-pu [x x x] iṣ-ṣa	garments ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
env t.e.
2	di-i-ni ⸢lu-bil⸣-u-ni	[Let him giv]e a verdict for me.

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