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BIN 06, 200 (P297465)
Letter, Old Assyrian, Kanesh · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
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| Designation | BIN 06, 200 |
|---|---|
| ID | P297465 |
| Museum no. | NBC 03960 |
| 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' | [...] x sza [...] | ... of ... |
| 2' | [...]-qur-tum a-na [...] | ...qurtu to |
| 3' | [...] x [x] x ha-ri / u2 a x [...] | ... ... hāri ... |
| 4' | sza# ta-asz2-pu-ra-ni / um-ma [a-ta-ma] | As to what you wrote me, thus I: |
| 5' | [i]-na ha-mi3-s,a-nim / lu-sze2-s,i2-u2-ma#? | Let me go out to the mountains, and |
| 6' | isz-ti2-a-ma / wa-asz2-bu / qa2-di2-a-ma#? | “With me, the one who resides, with me |
| 7' | li-mu-tu3 / u2-la2 / li-ib-lu-t,u3#-ma | May they live a long life! |
| 8' | i-na ha-mi3-s,a-nim ba-lu-um | in Ḫamiṣānum Balum |
| 9' | mi3-ma-ma / li-ih-li-qu2 | whatever they may pluck up. |
| 10' | li-hi-ib-la2-ma | may he bring, and |
| 11' | [u2] a-na szu-mi3 / sza-zu-za-ti-ka3#? | and for the name of your šazuzu prayer(?) |
| 12' | [x] x lu-mu-un li-bi3 x | ... the lord ... |
| 13' | [sza ta-asz2-pu]-ra-ni | As to what you wrote me |
Sources & licences
- 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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