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BIN 06, 087 (P297244)

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

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Designation	BIN 06, 087
ID	P297244
Museum no.	NBC 01895
Collection	Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
Genre	Letter
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	[um-ma] sza-lim-a-hu#-[um-ma]	Thus Šalim-ahum:
2	[a-na] pu-szu-ke-en6	to Pušuken
3	[qi2]-bi-ma a-di2 sze2-ni-[szu]	speak, and as long as he lives
4	_e2_-ti2 szu-hu-bu-ur	the house of Šuḫur
5	[i]-s,i2-bi-it ki-sza?	the one who binds the knees
6	_ku3#-babbar_ i-pu-uz-ri-[im]	the silver he received
7	[x]-ma a-s,e2-ri-a	... of my field
8	tu3#-sze2-bi-lam a-hi a-ta	you sent to me, my brother, from the water
9	_ku3#-babbar_ sza a-na	the silver that for
10	_e2#_{[be2-ti2} / asz2-qu2-lu]	the House of Succession
11	_ku3#-babbar_-pi3 a-na _e2#_[{be2-ti2}]	the silver for the house
12	sze2#-bi-lam a-na	send to
13	[x]-x-e _e2_ ma-ma-an#	... no house

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