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BIN 04, 093 (P290058)

Letter, Old Assyrian, Kanesh · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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Designation	BIN 04, 093
ID	P290058
Museum no.	NBC 03786
Collection	Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)
Coordinates	38.8517, 35.6365

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 puzur4-a-szur-ma	Puzur-Assur speaks thus:
2	a-na a-ta-ta-a u3	to Atatâ and
3	a-szur-ma-lik qi2-bi-ma	“Assur-mālik, speak!
4	a-pu-tum ih-da-ma	“The apsûtu-demon has risen, and
5	_ku3-babbar_ lu <sza> ru-ba-tim lu sza	the silver be it of the prince or of
6	_gal_ s,e2-ri-im sza-asz2-qi2-la2	chief of the countryside, šašqila
7	la2 a-ka3-sza-dam _ku3-babbar_	he shall not eat, the silver
8	pa2-num-ma sza ta-ma-ha-ra-ni	The one who sees me,
9	a-na sza ki-ma i-a-ti2	to that which like me
10	szu-uq-la2 / 1(u) 2(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_	12 shekels of silver
11	sza ar-nu-ma-an	of Arnuman
12	ha-bu-la2-ni sza-asz2-qi2-la2-szu	(and) his debts he shall pay.
13	_sze_-um sza du-ru-uh3-[...]	the barley of Durub-

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