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BIN 04, 224 (P293732)

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

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Designation	BIN 04, 224
ID	P293732
Museum no.	NBC 04017
Collection	Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
Genre	Administrative
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	a-na be-el _ku3-babbar_	to the owner of the silver
2	sza a-szur-be-el-ma-al-ki-im	of Assur-bēl-malkûm,
3	lugal-su2-en6 a-mur-a-szur	Lugal-Suen, Amur-Assur
4	i3-li2-isz-ti2-kal2 u3	Iliš-tikal and
5	a-szur-be-el-ma-al-ki-ma	Assur-bēl-malku
6	um-ma i-di2-su2-en6-ma	thus Idissuen:
7	3(u) _ma-na ku3-babbar_ ku-nu-ti2	30 minas of silver, the kunutu-tax
8	ha-bu-la2-ku-nu-ti2 u3 3(u) _ma-na_	your debts and 30 minas
9	_ku3-babbar_ i-a-ti2 ha-bu-lam-ma	the silver that I received from Habulama
10	t,up-pu-szu ha-ar-ma-am	He will break his tablet.
11	u2-ka3-al i-na a-wa-ti2-ku-nu	he will hold at your command.
12	bu-la2-ti2-szu u3 _ku3-babbar_ sza a-tu3-nu	his wages and the silver that I have
13	tu3-ka3-la2-ni ta-na-di2-a-ma	you will hold, you will give me, and
14	_ku3-babbar_ a-na a-lim{ki} tu3-sze2-ba-la2-ma	the silver to Bison you shall pay, and
15	szi2-a-ma-tum e-li-a-nim-ma	the šiamātu-disease above me
16	_ku3-babbar_-ap2-ku-nu	your silver
17	tu3-usz-ta-ba-a-ma	you will sit down, and
reverse
1	szi2-tam2 a-na-ku a-la2-qe2	I will take the case.
2	1(u) 1(disz) _ma-na ku3-babbar_ ku-nu-ki-a	11 minas of silver, Kunukia
3	na-asz2-a-ku-nu-ti2 u3 a-tu3-nu	I have given you, and you,
4	bu-la2-ti2-szu! sza tu3-ka3-la2-ni	his wages that you have imposed,
5	ta-e-ra-ma isz-te2-ni-isz	you return, and together
6	_ku3-babbar_ ku-un-ka3-ma a-na lugal-su2-en6	the silver of Kunkama to Lugal-suen
7	u3 sza ki-ma ku-nu-ti2 sze2-bi4-la2-ma	and send me that which is like a gift!
8	_ki_ sza ki-ma ku-nu-ti2	the place where like a seal
9	a-szur-be-el-ma-al-ki-im	Assur-bēl-mākim
10	li-zi-iz-ma szi2-ma-am sza ba-la2-t,i2-szu	May he stand and hear the fate of his life.
11	li-isz-u2-mu-ma lu-qu2-tum	may they hear, and the luqūtu-demon
12	le-li-a-ma a-na _ku3-babbar_	may he take and for silver
13	li-tur4-ma _ku3-babbar_-ap2-ku-nu	may he return, and your silver
14	szu-ta-bi4-a-ma szi2-tam2 a-na-ku	Speak to me, and I will speak the truth.
15	la2-al-qe2 a-di2 a-tu3-nu	I will take until Atunu
16	tu3-usz-ta-ba-a-ni a-na-ku	I will sit down with him.
17	la2 a-la2-qe2 szu-ma _ku3-babbar_ a-ni-am	I shall not take. If this silver
18	u3 bu-la2-ti2-szu sza a-tu3-nu	and his property that I have
19	tu3-ka3-la2-ni la2 ta-ka3-na-ka3-ma	do not keep him alive, and
20	a-na a-lim{ki}	to the city
21	la2 tu3-sze2-ba-la2 a-na ba-a-ba-at _ku3-babbar_-pi3-ni	you shall not bring. For the payment of the silver
22	u3 i-a-ti2 zu-za-nim	and I, Zuzanim,

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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
electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)

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