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YOS 02, 021 (P305742)

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

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Designation	YOS 02, 021
ID	P305742
Museum no.	YBC 04505
Collection	Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Larsa (mod. Tell as-Senkereh)
Coordinates	31.2832, 45.8549

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 be-li2-ia	To my lord
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma er3-ra-ga-mil wa-ra-ad-ka-ma	Thus Erra-gamil, your servant:
4	_{d}utu_ u3 _{d}ne3-eri11-gal_	Šamaš and Nergal
5	asz-szum-mi-ia _mu 1(szar2)-kam_ li#-[ba-li2-t,u2-ka]	Because of me, the 1st year may they keep you alive.
6	szar-ru-um i-szi-ir#-[ma]	the king will be chosen and
7	i-ik-te#-ze-er	he has sworn.
8	u3 ma-ra-szu-u2	and Marašû
9	i-na ku-si2#-i	in a leather bag
10	u2-usz-te-szi-ib#	he settled.
11	u2 szu-u2	that plant
12	i-ti re-s,u2-ti-szu	his helper
13	a-na KA SZIR KI	To the gate of the širû-priest of the place
14	i-ta-na-s,i2	he shall remove.
15	um-ma szu-u2-ma i-nu-u2-ma	Thus he: when
16	LE MI NI a-li-ia	... of my city.

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