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KAL 16, 52 (P550402)
Letter, Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | KAL 16, 52 |
|---|---|
| ID | P550402 |
| Museum no. | VAT 09525 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 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-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}kaš-[til-a-šu qi₂-bi-ma] | Say to Ana-ešu: |
| 2 | um-ma {[m]}⸢TUKUL⸣{[ti}{d}MAŠ] | Thus says Tiglath-pileser |
| 3 | LUGAL {⸢kur⸣}[aš+šur-ma] | the king of Ekur |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ [...] | The ša’e23 priest |
| r | ||
| 1' | [... {m]}⸢kaš⸣-til-⸢a-šu⸣ [...] | ... Kašu-etil-asvû |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x⸣ {m}TUKUL{ti}{d}MAŠ ⸢MAN⸣ {[kur}aš+šur ...] | ... Tukultī-Ninurta, king of Assyria |
| 3' | [a-na pa]-⸢at⸣ gim-ri-ša ik-⸢šu⸣-[du-ni ...] | To the one who entrusted all of it to me |
| 4' | [ina] {⸢kur⸣}kar-du-ni-aš₂ iṣ-bat-an-⸢ni⸣ [... a-na {iri}aš+šur] | in the Karduniaš temple he seized. to Assur |
| 5' | ⸢ub⸣-la-an-ni i+na {iri}ŠA₃-⸢URU⸣ [...] | he erected it. In Šūzub-Eši |
| 6' | ⸢u₂⸣-ša-am-ši-u₂-šu-ni iš-⸢tu⸣ [...] | “When he comes forth from the east |
| 7' | ša {kur}kar-du-ni-aš₂ a-⸢na⸣ [...] | of Kardunias |
| 8' | a-na UGU {m}kaš-til-a-šu ⸢la⸣ [...] | against Kabštilasu |
| 9' | {iti}KIN U₄ 16KAM₂ li-mu {m}[...] | Month Ululu, 16th day, eponymy of . |
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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