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BIN 02, 070 (P297171)

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

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Designation	BIN 02, 070
ID	P297171
Museum no.	NBC 01267
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# qur2#-di-isz8-tar2	to Qurdi-Ištar
2	u3 u2-ba-a-a-tum	and Ubayatum
3	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
4	um-ma i-bi-_dingir_-ma#	Ibbi-ilī speaks thus:
5	_{d}utu_ li-ba#-al-li-it,-ku-nu-ti	May Šamaš keep you alive!
6	{disz}na-bi#-[_{d}]suen#_ at,-t,ar-da#-ak#-ku-nu-szi-im	I sent to you Nabi-Sîn.
7	a-na i-bi-_{d}en-lil2_ u3 na-bi-_{d}suen_	to Ibbi-Enlil and Nabi-Sin
8	_{lu2}hun-ga2-mesz_ id-na-a-ma	hired laborers gave, and
9	[x]-na# ZI#?-IB?-hi-im _a-sza3_ hi-ri-tum	... of the field Hirittum
10	[x x x x x x x x x]
reverse
1	ki-ma UD?-AD?-DI? i-na-ad-di-[x]	like a ... he shall give.
2	a-na i-bi-_{d}en-lil2_	to Ibbi-Enlil
3	qi2-bi2-a-ma	speak!
4	_a2-bi {lu2}hun-ga2-mesz_	its labor: the hirelings
5	li-id-di-in	may he give.

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