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YOS 13, 170 (P296089)

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

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Designation	YOS 13, 170
ID	P296089
Museum no.	MLC 01332
Collection	J. Pierpont Morgan Library 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	{disz}ARAD2-{d}tasz-me-tum _dumu-e2-dub-ba-a_	Arad-Tašmētum, the scribe
2	u3 a-wi-il-{d}utu	and Awīl-šamaš
3	a-na ma-ah-ri-ka at,-t,ar-dam	I have sent to you.
4	ki-ma ze-eh-pi2 ta-a-am-ma-ru	You will see it like a cloud.
5	pa-ni _ab2 gu4 hi-a_ sza te-re-HU-u2	before the cows of the tērāhu-offering
6	s,a-ab-tam	seized
7	u3 ka-ni-ka-at s,i2-i-tim	and the guarantee of prosperity
8	sza tu-sze-s,u2-u2	that you brought out,
9	le-qi2-a-am-ma	take, and
10	i-na _iti sze-sag11-ku5 u4 2(u)-kam_	in the month of Addarum, the 20th day
reverse
1	it-ti ARAD2-{d}tasz-me-tum _dumu-e2-dub-ba#-[a]_	with Warad-Tašmetum the scribal apprentice
2	u3 a-wi-il-{d}utu sza at,-ru-dam	and Awīl-šamaš, whom I sent
3	a-na babila2{ki}	to Babylon
4	si2-in-qa2-am	a good thing

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