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YOS 02, 138 (P307998)

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

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Designation	YOS 02, 138
ID	P307998
Museum no.	YBC 06999
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 ip-qu2-_ir3-ra_	to Ipqu-irra
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma im-gur-{d}da-gan-ma	thus Imgur-Dagan:
4	_{d}utu_ u3 _{d}lugal-ban3-da_	Šamaš and Lugalbanda
5	asz-szum-ia [da]-ri-isz u4-mi-im	Because of me, every day
6	li-ba-al#-li#-t,u3#-u2-ka	may they keep you alive!
7	ki-ma ti-du ma-WI?-i-ma	like a tidu-demon
8	mu-uh-hi-ia i-si-i-ma	he approached me, and
9	ma-har ISZ? du-bu-ba-ak	before Ištar of Dubak
10	{disz}a-pil-_{d}mar-tu sag ir3#_	Apil-Amurru, first-born son
11	sza i-na ma-ah-ri-ia	which before me
12	[x]-BU?-u2 ma-<ah>-ri-ka u2-ka#-lu-szu#	... will hold him in your presence.
13	sze#-a-am# sza i-na-[x x x]	the barley that he ...
14	[x x x]
reverse
1	[...]

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