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LIH 074 (P275147)

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

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Designation	LIH 074
ID	P275147
Museum no.	BM 027260
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-din-nam	to Sîn-iddinam
2	[qi2]-bi2-ma	speak!
3	[um]-ma ha-am-mu-ra-pi2-ma	thus Hammurapi:
4	_ab2 gu4 hi-a_ u3 _u8 udu hi-a_	cattle and sheep and goats
5	sza [x x] x-ma-ra-as,	of ...-maraṣ
6	i-[na e-mu-ut]-ba-lim ka-li-a	in all the envoys
7	[x x x x x (x) (x)]-he-e	...... ...hê
8	[x x x x x (x)-ma]-ra-as,	...... to me
9	[x x x x x (x) (x)] x-mu	... ...;
10	a-di [x x x x x (x) (x)] x	until ......
11	sza _ab2 gu4# [hi-a_ u3 _u8 udu hi-a_ szi]-na#-ti	of cattle and sheep and goats
12	i-ma-[...]	... ...
13	x [...]
reverse
1	a-na sza-am-x [x x (x)]	to ...
2	pi2-qi2-id-ma	take, and
3	li-is,-s,u-ru	they should guard.
4	_ab2 gu4 hi-a_ u3 _u8 udu hi-a_ szi-na	cattle and sheep and goats
5	la i-s,e-eh-he-ra	he shall not approach

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

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