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LIH 003 (P275078)

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

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Designation	LIH 003
ID	P275078
Museum no.	BM 012816
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Larsa (mod. Tell as-Senkereh)
Coordinates	31.2832, 45.8549

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	a-na {d}suen-i-di2-nam	to Sîn-iddinam
2	qi2-bi2-ma#	speak!
3	um-ma ha-am-mu-ra-pi2-ma#	thus Hammurapi:
4	1(disz) na-ra-am-{d}suen _u2-tul2#_	1: Naram-Sîn, cook
5	ki-a-am iq-bi-a-am um-ma szu#-ma	Thus said he:
6	_ka-bar-mesz_ sza qa2-ti-ni	the bronze of our hands
7	a-na _aga-us2-mesz_ um-ta-al-lu-u2	to the soldiers he carried off.
8	ki-a-am iq-bi-a-am	he said thus:
9	_ka-bar-mesz nig2-szu_ a-pil2-{d}utu	silver, property of Apil-šamaš
10	u3 na-ra-am-{d}suen	and Naram-Sin
11	[a]-na# _aga-us2-mesz_ la u2-ma-al-lu-u2	they shall not pay to the soldiers.
12	[u3 a]-na# e#-til#-pi2-{d}marduk u3 a-wi-le-e	and to Etil-pî-Marduk and the man
13	[qi2]-bi2#-i-ma	speak!
14	_[ka]-bar#-[mesz] nig2#-szu#_ a#-pil2-{d}utu	silver, property of Apil-šamaš
15	u3 na-ra-am-{d}suen	and Naram-Sin
reverse
1	sza il-qu2-u2	who took
2	li-te-er-ru	may they return.

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