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CT 43, 014 (P313304)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 43, 014 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313304 |
| Museum no. | BM 016481 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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-wi-le-e | to a man |
| 2 | sza {d}amar-utu u2-ba-al-la-t,u2-szu-nu-ti | of Marduk he will keep them alive. |
| 3 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma _ugula dam-gar3-mesz_ u3 _di-ku5-mesz_-ma | thus the foreman of merchants and judges: |
| 5 | {d}utu u3 {d}amar-utu da#-ri-isz _u4_-mi | Šamaš and Marduk forever |
| 6 | li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ku-nu-ti | may they keep you alive!” |
| 7 | asz-szum ap-lu-ut _lukur {d}utu_ | Because the nadītu of Šamaš |
| 8 | sza na-ra-am-i3-li2-szu | belonging to Naram-ilišu, |
| 9 | a-hi i-bi-{d}utu | brother of Ibbi-šamaš |
| 10 | il-qu2-u2-ma | they took, and |
| 11 | _lu2 bad3{ki}-mesz_ | the people of the walls |
| 12 | it-ti i-bi-{d}utu | with Ibbi-šamaš |
| 13 | i-di-nu | they gave. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-wa-ti-szu-nu | their words |
| 2 | ni-mu-ur-ma | we saw, and |
| 3 | a-na pi2-i tup-pa-a-tim sza ap-lu-ti | according to the wording of the tablets of the scholars, |
| 4 | sza# i-bi-{d}utu na-szu-u2 | of Ibbi-šamaš is responsible |
| 5 | di-nam a-na i-bi-{d}utu ni-ig-mu-ur | a verdict for Ibbi-šamaš we reached. |
| 6 | u3 asz-szum _lu2 bad3{ki}-mesz_ | and concerning the people of the walls |
| 7 | a-na la a-wa-ti-szu-nu | without their consent |
| 8 | i-di-nu | they gave. |
| 9 | a-na pi2-i tup-pi2 s,i-im-da-tim | according to the wording of the formally executed tablet |
| 10 | ki-ma sza la szu-ni-a-am | like that which is not mine |
| 11 | ib-qu2-ru | he plundered. |
| 12 | sze-er-tam | a second time |
| 13 | i-s,i-ru-szu-nu-szi-im | he smote them |
| 14 | u3 a-na la ta-ri-im-ma | and not to be forgotten |
| 15 | la ba-qa2-ri-im | not to be disputed |
| left | ||
| 1 | ka-ni-kam nu-sze-zi-ib-szu-nu-ti | We will remove them from the sealed document. |
| 2 | ka-ni-kam szu-a-ti szi-me-a | Give me this seal! |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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