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PIHANS 88, 209, 221 no. 12 (P532058)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, uncertain · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | PIHANS 88, 209, 221 no. 12 |
|---|---|
| ID | P532058 |
| Collection | National Museum of Syria, Raqqa, Syria |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. Tell Sabi Abyad) |
| Coordinates | 36.5057, 39.0915 |
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}ba-la-⸢ṭu⸣-[x-x] | to Balā-eṭu- |
| 2 | u₃ {m}EN-⸢KAM⸣ | and Bel-ereš |
| 3 | qi₂-bi-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {m}tam-mi-⸢it-te-ma⸣ | Thus Tammī-ittemâ: |
| 5 | {lu₂}ṣa-hi-tu | the šandabakku |
| 6 | ŠE.I₃.GIŠ-šu-⸢nu⸣-MEŠ | Sesame seeds |
| 7 | li-hi-lu-⸢ṣu⸣ | Liḫilu-ešû |
| 8 | šu-ma ŠE.I₃.GIŠ | He is a sesame seed |
| 9 | i+na {iri}du-ni-ku-nu | in Dunukunu |
| 10 | la-aš₂-šu | there is none |
| r | ||
| 11 | a-na {iri}du-ni | to Dunni |
| 12 | ša ⸢šu⸣-[ub]-ri-e | of Ša-ešubrî |
| 13 | a-al-ka | of Alka, |
| 14 | ŠE.I₃.GIŠ a-na {lu₂}ṣa-hi-te | sesame for the Bahute |
| 15 | di-na li-hi-lu-ṣu | a lawsuit may they litigate |
| 16 | qa-su-nu la u₂-ṣa-li-u₂ | their hands did not restrain |
| 17 | ŠE.I₃.GIŠ li-hi-lu-ṣu | sesame oil for Liḫilusbu |
| 18 | I₃-MEŠ la i-ṣa-hu-tu | they shall not add oil |
| 19 | ŠE.I₃.GIŠ hal-ṣu | Sesame oil for halšbu-confection |
| 20 | a-na e-ma-di-[šu-nu] | for their own use |
| 21 | i-qa-bi-[a] | shall say to me |
| 22 | ar-⸢hi⸣-[iš] | Arḫi-eš |
| b.e. | ||
| 23 | ⸢li-hi⸣-[lu-ṣu] | eliḫi-elušbu plant |
Sources & licences
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- 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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