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BIN 07, 021 (P292968)

Letter, Early Old Babylonian, Larsa · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE

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Designation	BIN 07, 021
ID	P292968
Museum no.	NBC 05527
Collection	Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 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 lu2-igi-sa6	to Lu-igisa
2	qi2-bi2#-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ba-nu-u2-um-ma	Banum (speaks) thus:
4	a-nu-um-ma	Herewith
5	_1(gesz2) 4(u) udu-nita2_	100 rams
6	usz-ta-ri-a-ku-um	I have sworn by you.
7	u3 _1(gesz2) 4(u) udu-nita2_	and 70 rams
8	ri-isz-ka u2-ka#-[lu]	they will hold your yoke
reverse
1	mi-im-ma la#	nothing
2	ta-na-hi-id#	you will harness (them)
3	u3 {d}da-mu-gal#-zu#	and Damu-galzu
4	i-li-kam-ma	came, and
5	um-ma szu-ma	Thus (says) he:
6	a-na bi#-it i3-li2-a-a	to the house of Ilīya
7	et,-hi
8	ma-ma-an	nobody
9	la i-t,e4-he-e	he shall not return.
10	mi-im-ma	everything
11	sza# ta-qa2-bu	that you said
12	li-pu-szu	they should do.
left
1	u3 szu-lu#-um-ka szu#-up-ra-am	Send me your šulum!

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