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BIN 07, 052 (P292943)

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

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Designation	BIN 07, 052
ID	P292943
Museum no.	NBC 05497
Collection	Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

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}utu-na-s,i-ir	to Šamaš-nāṣir
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ha-zi-rum-ma	Thus Hazirum:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-li-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
5	e-pe2-szum sza te-pu-sza-an-ni	do what you have done to me,
6	sza {d}utu ki-a-am ta-aq-bi-a-am#	of Šamaš thus you said
7	um-ma at-ta-a-ma	Thus you:
8	ki-ma t,e4-hi-ia	like my advice
9	s,e2-eh-ra-am u2-ba#-la-am-ma	he will bring the flock, and
10	u2-sza-ba-la-ku-[um]	I will send to you
reverse
1	u2-ul tu-sza-bi-lam	you did not send me.
2	u3 a-na esz3-nun-na{ki}	and to Ešnunna
3	ta-li-ka-ma	came, and
4	szu-lu-um-ka-ma	your šulum
5	u2-ul ta-asz-pu-ra-am	you did not send me.
6	mi-im-ma sza i-na qa2-ti-ka	All that is in your hand
7	i-ba-asz-szu-u2 szu-bi-lam	there is, send me!
8	u3 _ku3-babbar_ szu-bi-lam	and silver, send me!

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