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LIH 018 (P275093)

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

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Designation	LIH 018
ID	P275093
Museum no.	BM 012841
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	_dumu#-mesz#_ ha-ab-lum _ra2-gaba ensi2_	sons of Hablum, courier of the governor
5	t,up-pa-am sza hi-bi-il-ti-szu#-nu#	A tablet concerning their debts
6	sza# e-tel-pi2-{d}marduk	of Etel-pî-Marduk
7	ih-bu-lu-szu-nu-ti	destroyed them.
8	ub-lu#-nim-ma	brought, and
9	u2-ka-al#-li-mu-ni-in#-ni#	they will hold me back.
10	[...]
reverse
1'	[hi-bi]-il#-ta#-szu#-[nu]	their debts
2'	li#-bi-ir-ru-ma	he should send, and
3'	hi#-bi-il-ta-szu-nu	their debts
4'	te-er-szu-nu-szi-im	return them.
5'	u3 e-tel-pi2-{d}marduk	and Etel-pî-Marduk
6'	sza# ih-bu-lu-szu-nu#-ti#	who killed them
7'	a-na ma-ah-ri-ia	to my presence
8'	t,u2-ur-dam	to be returned.

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