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BIN 06, 004 & BIN 06, pl. 080 004c (P297416)

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

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Designation	BIN 06, 004 & BIN 06, pl. 080 004c
ID	P297416
Museum no.	NBC 03809 & NBC 03900
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 e-di2-{d}a-szur-ma	thus Edi-Assur:
2	a-na puzur4-{d}iszkur	to Puzur-Addu
3	u3 esz18-dar-ba-asz2-ti2 qi2-bi-ma	and Ištar-ba’asti speak!
4	a-na puzur4-{d}iszkur	to Puzur-Addu
5	qi2-bi-ma 9(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_	speak, and 9 shekels of silver
6	an-ni-nu-um ha-bu-la2-am	This is a robbery.
7	i-na wa-asz2-ha-ni-a	on my shoulder
8	as,#-ba-su2-ma	I seized, and
9	um#-ma szu-ut-ma	Thus he:
reverse
1	_[ku3]-babbar_ i-qa2-ti2-a	the silver he received
2	la2-szu / i-ka3-ni-isz	he will pay back the deficit.
3	puzur4-{d}iszkur	Puzur-Adad
4	li-isz-qu2-la2-kum	may they pluck you up.
5	szu-ma / a-hi a-ta	He is the brother of Ayata.
6	_ku3-babbar_ a-na esz18-dar-ba-asz2-ti2	the silver to Ištar-baši
7	di2-in	judge

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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

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