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BIN 06, 111 (P297409)

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

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Designation	BIN 06, 111
ID	P297409
Museum no.	NBC 03892
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	[a]-na# puzur4-esz18-dar#	to Puzur-Ištar
2	[qi2]-bi-ma um-ma	speak! Thus
3	esz18-dar#-la2-ma-si2-<ma> mi3-szu	Ištar-lamassi<ma> his wife
4	sza# isz-ti2 a-li-ki	that from the city
5	pa2#-ni-im-ma la2 i-li-<ka3-ni-ma>	“Open my mouth, so that he will not come to me<and>
6	a-na-kam s,i2-bi-tam2	“What is it that you want to say?
7	ta-asz2-ku-nu-ni-a-ti2-ni	you have placed for me,
8	en-na-su2-en6	Ennasuen
9	i-li-kam-ma	came, and
10	um#-ma szu-ut-ma	Thus he:
11	[x]-sza#-ak-tu3-szu	his ...
reverse
1	[x x]-a?-am _tug2 hi_-ti2	... garments of good quality
2	[x x] x ku-nu-ki	... your seal
3	[x x] x x x szu-nu	...... they
4	[...]-tu3 a-pu-tum#	“... ... apsûm
5	[x x] a-ta te2-er!-ta#-ka3#	... from/by means of the border(?)
6	[li]-li-kam#-ma	let him come, and

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