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YOS 02, 143 (P305792)

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

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Designation	YOS 02, 143
ID	P305792
Museum no.	YBC 04555
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 a-hu!(RI)-um-wa-qar u3 a-pil-_{d}utu_	to Aḫum-waqar and Apil-šamaš
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ip-qu2-sza-ma	Thus Ipquša:
4	_{d}utu_ u3 _{d}tiszpak_ asz-szu-mi-ia	May Šamaš and Tišar for my sake
5	li-ba#-al#-li-t,u2-ku-nu-ti	may they keep you alive!
6	_{d}tiszpak_ u3 esz3-nun-na{ki} sza-lim	Tishpak and Ešnunna are well.
7	_ud-ab{ki}_ lu4 sza-lim	of Ur, a man who is well
8	ki-ma ti-de-a-a	like Tideā,
9	i-na esz3-nun-na{ki} _uru{ki}_	in Ešnunna, the city
10	ze-ru-um u3-li i-ba-asz-szi	there is lamentation and lament.
11	sza _1(disz) 1/3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_	of 1 1/3 shekels of silver
reverse
1	bi-ti ka-ri	“Bīti-kari
2	szu-ta-s,i2-a-am-ma	I have sent out, and
3	szu-bi-la-nim	send to me!

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