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YOS 02, 001 (P305756)

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

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Designation	YOS 02, 001
ID	P305756
Museum no.	YBC 04519
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 {d}suen-ma-gir!	to Sîn-magir
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ip-qu2-esz18-dar u3 <{d}>suen-i-tu-ra-am-<<ma>>	Thus Ipqu-Ištar and Sîn-itūram
4	ah-hu-ka-a-ma	your brothers and
5	an {d}inanna {d}utu {d}ig-gal-la u3 {d}mar-tu il-ka	An, Inanna, Šamaš, Igalla and Martu are your servants.
6	asz-szum-i-ni a-na da-ri-a-tim	Because of this, for eternity
7	li-ba-al-li-t,u2-u2-ka	may they keep you alive.
8	asz-szum t,e4-e-mi-im sza um-ma at-ta-a-ma	Concerning the report that you, thus:
9	{disz}ha-di-a-me-er-{d}utu-ma asz-szum ni-di-in pi-im#	Hadī-amer-Šamaš because of the offering
10	a-na sza-ni-im ir-szu-u2	to another he shall take.
11	u2-za-ab-ba-la-an-ni	shall remove me,
12	a-na i-ta-az-zu-uz-zi a-na sza-szi-im	to stand, to raise
13	a-ah-ka la-a ta-na-an-di	Do not abandon your brother!
14	ki-a-am qi2-bi-szum um-ma at-ta-a-ma	Thus (says) his lord:
15	sza!-at-ta BI-de-esz-ma	“That year
16	ta-qa2-ab-bu-u2	you will say
17	IA-szi-im pi-isz-tum	“Iašīm, the secret,
18	um-ma qa2-bu-um-ma i-na ta-ak-lu-u2	Thus (says) the spokesman: in battle
19	{disz}ha-di-a-me-er-{d}utu i-na te-er-tim sza-a-ti	Hadi-amer-Šamaš in that extispicy
20	is-su2-uh2-szu	he removed.
21	mi-nam ta-mu-ra-an-ni-ma	What did you see me?
22	i-na re-qe3-nu-um-ma	at the threshing floor
23	te#-er-ti a-na sza-ni-im	Return to the other side.
24	[ta]-ad-di-in	given.
reverse
1	ki#-a-am qi2-bi-szum-ma	thus say to him
2	ar-hi-isz i-ip-pa-al-ka	quickly he will look at you
3	u3 a-nu-um-ma {disz}na-bi-i3-li2-szu	And now Nabi-ilišu
4	a-na la-a szi-na-ti pa-nu-szu sza-ak-nu-u2	They are placed before him in order not to be forgotten.
5	{disz}a-pil-{d}suen a-wi-lam e-da-ma-am	Apil-Sîn, a man, was born
6	i-na bi-it {d}en-lil2 i-na-as-sa3-ah	in the house of Enlil he shall remove
7	szum-ma na-DU-u2 qi2-bi-szum-ma	If the nādû-priest speaks thus:
8	ta-az-zi-im-tam la-a i-sa3-ah-hu-ur	(Sum) The tazzimtu-demon will not approach (Akk) The battle will not come to an end
9	u3 ki-ma a-pil-{d}suen nu-u2-um	and as Apil-Sîn is not
10	u2-ul ti-de-e	you did not know.
11	a-na an-ni-tim a-ah-ka	I am your brother.
12	la-a ta-na-an-di	do not delay!
13	an {d}inanna {d}utu {d}ig-gal-la u3 {d}mar-tu il-ka	An, Inanna, Šamaš, Igalla and Martu are your servants.
14	asz-szum-i-ni a-na da-ri-a-tim	Because of this, for eternity
15	li-ba-al-li-t,u2-u2-ka	may they keep you alive.

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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
electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)

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