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OBLA 28 (P273755)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Ešnunna · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	OBLA 28
ID	P273755
Museum no.	OIM A—
Collection	Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia & North Africa Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Ešnunna (mod. Tell Asmar)
Coordinates	33.4837, 44.7276

Transliteration (ATF)

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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)
obverse
1	um-ma i-s,ur-{d}iszkur-ma	Thus Iṣur-Addu:
2	a-na um-mi-a	to my mother
3	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
4	a-wi-lu-u2 szu-ut i-ti-szu-nu usz-bu	(Sum) The man who is with them sat down (Akk) That man who was with them sits down
5	szu-nu-ma a-szi-mi-im i-di3-nu-ni-ni	they gave me the ašimmu-tax.
6	a-na _sukkal-mah_-im	to the vizier
7	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
8	i-di3-in li-isz-ku-un	may he give.
reverse
1	a-na szi-pi2-ir	for the work
2	szar-ri-im	king
3	i#-di3-in	gave
4	li-isz-ku-un	may he place.
5	a-na szu#-mi ar-hi-isz	quickly to my name
6	u2-sze-s,i-u3-ni-in-ni-ma	he sent me, and
7	na-di3-ni-a	did Nadinia
8	a-s,a-ba-tu	to seize

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