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al-Rafidan 17, 28 (P522483)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | al-Rafidan 17, 28 |
|---|---|
| ID | P522483 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| 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}ARAD-i | Tablet of Urdî. |
| 2 | IM {m}mu-LAL-in-aš-šur | Tablet of Mutaqqin-Ašṣur. |
| 3 | a-na {m}aš-šur-KUR-LAL-in | to Aššar-matu-taqqin |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na PAB.MEŠ-ni | Good health to our brothers! |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}ŠU₂ a-na | Nabû and Marduk to |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | may they bless. |
| 7 | an-nu-tu₂ LU₂ am-ma-iu | These men |
| 8 | ina UGU-hi ZI.MEŠ-ni | Concerning our lives |
| 9 | i-da-ʾi-bi KASKAL-ni | He goes on his way. |
| 10 | ša-al a-mur | he sees |
| 11 | a-bu-tu₂ a-ki sa-ar-pat | (Sum) My word is a flood that wipes away the land (Akk) The word of the storm is like a rainstorm |
| 12 | šup-ra-na-ši | send to him. |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | u₃ qa-ba-li | and the quay |
| r | ||
| 1 | ru-ku-uš | |
| 2 | TA IGI-ni i-zi-[iz] | He stands before us.(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 3 | UD-mu ša e-gir₂-tu₂ | The day of the letter |
| 4 | ta-mar-u-nu | You will see. |
| 5 | DUG₄.DUG₄ hu-ur-ṣa | litigation against Ḫurṣu |
| 6 | šup-ra-na-ši | send to him. |
| 7 | id-bi-ru₃ ga-ba-ru-u | “Storm of the flood, |
| 8 | ša e-gir₂-tu₂ šup-ra | Send me a letter! |
| 9 | la ina UGU-hi 05-TA qu-ru-bu | Not (receiving): 5 each of the bodyguards. |
| 10 | ina UGU ga-bi-ku-nu | Concerning your libation vessel |
| 11 | i-zu-qu-pu | they will cut off. |
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | mi-nu ah-hur | What else? |
| 2 | e-gir₂-tu₂ la qur-bi-ka | A letter not yours |
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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