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KAL 17, 70 (P546968)

Recipe or Instruction, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE

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DesignationKAL 17, 70
IDP546968
Museum no.VAT 10537
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodMiddle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
GenreRecipe or Instruction
Find spotAssur (mod. Qalat Sherqat)
Coordinates35.4557, 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.

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2'[i+na x{šu]} ta-ba-⸢ki⸣ [I₃.GIŠ te-si-ip]On the ... of Tabā-ēki-e23 you will pour oil.
3'{[dug]}⸢UTUL₂⸣ ta-ka-par A-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ta]-⸢ṣa⸣-[ra-ah {dug}ha-ri-a ta-ma-si]You will wipe the large bowl clean. You will wash the small bowl and you will rub the hariu-vessel.
4'[A-MEŠ] a-na {dug}ha-ri-e ta-tab-⸢ba-ak⸣ 2 ka-sa-te]You will pour the water into a hariu-vessel. 2 cups
5'[ša] ⸢ki-iṣ⸣-ri ša per₂-ṣa-du-hi ⸢a-na ŠA₃⸣ [ta-tab-ba-ak]You will pour the water of the kiṣīru-tree (and) of the peršbaduḫi-plant into the well.
6'[ka]-⸢la⸣ u₄-mi-šu ša₂-kin ⸢nu-bat⸣-[tu-šu a-na {dug}a-ga-ni te-si-ip]You set up a ka'elû-vessel for the agannu-bowl on that day.
7'3 SILA₃ per₂-ṣa]-⸢du⸣-hi a-na {dug}⸢a-ga⸣-[ni ta-kar-ra-ar]You will cast 3 qû of peršba-eduḫi-plant into a tureen.
8'[A-MEŠ ša] {⸢dug⸣}ha-ri-e ⸢a-na ŠA₃⸣ [ta-tab-ba-ak]You will pour the water from the harû-vessel into the pitcher
9'[i-bi-id-du i]+⸢na⸣ na-ma-ri {[dug}UTUL₂]Ibbi-iddu, sunrise to moonset: the large bowl
10'[ta-ka-par₂ ŠIM-MEŠ la-bu]-⸢ku⸣-u₂-te [ša i+na {dug}a-ga-ni]You will unharness (them). The sulphur from the agannu-vessel
11'[be-du-u₂-ni a-na ŠA₃ {dug]}⸢UTUL₂⸣ ta-tab-⸢ba⸣-[ak IZI tu-ša-ha-az]You will pour it into a large bowl and you will ignite fire.

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