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CT 43, 015 & CT 52, 187 (P313305)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CT 43, 015 & CT 52, 187
ID	P313305
Museum no.	BM 016811 & BM 016811A
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)

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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	la-ma-as-su2 sza bi-ia-a-ti-ia	“I am afraid of my house,
2	i-na li-it-tim u3 szu-mi dam-qi2-im	In the future, and according to my good name
3	i-na _e2-gal_ ta-at-ta-na-al-la-ku	in the palace you keep wandering about.
4	a-bi ka-ta li-la-ab-bi-ru	May their fathers cross over from your mouth.
5	a-bi at-ta lu sza-al-ma-ta lu ba-al-t,a-ta	You, my father, should be well, you should be healthy.
6	la-ma-as-si2 bi-ia-ti-ia li-is,-s,u2-ur-ka	May my limbs be shattered for you,
7	asz-szum ka-ni-ik _sag-nita2_ sza ARAD-{d}nin-szubur	Concerning the seal of the slave of Warad-Ninšubur
8	_dumu_ {d}nin-urta-sag-kal _ARAD_-ka	son of Ninurta-sagkal, your servant.
9	sza ma-har e-tel-pi4-{d}na-bi-um _sanga_ sza-ak-nu	which are placed before Etel-pî-Nabium, the priest,
10	a-na szu-bu-ul ka-ni-ki szu-a-ti	[For] that sealing of the seal
11	a-bi at-ta a-an-na ta-pu-la-an-ni-ma	You, my father, have sent me a message.
12	a-na har-ra-nim tu-usz-te-sze-er	you will bring (them) down on the road.
13	i-nu-ma a-na e-re-eb a-bi-ia ka-ta	When to enter my father's house
14	uz-na-ia ib-ba-szi-a	my limbs are bound,
reverse
1	{disz}be-li2-ia-tum _dumu_ {d}suen-e-ri-isz	Bēlī-yatum, son of Sîn-eriš
2	a-wi-lam {d}nanna-ma-an-szum2	the man Nanna-manšum
3	is-sa-ah-ra-am	has received.
4	u3 a-na ma-har a-bi-ia asz-ta-na-ap-pa-ra-am-ma	and I keep sending to my father, and
5	a-bi ka-ni-kam u2-ul u2-sza-bi-lam	My father did not send me a sealed document.
6	ki-ma {d}nanna-ma-an-szum2 a-na {munus}ni-pa-ti-ia	like Nanna-manšum to my sister
7	isz-tap-ra-am	he sent to me
8	ul-la-nu a-bi-ia ka-ta	“From now on, my father, from now on
9	ma-an-na u2-na-ah-a	Who will remove it?
10	a-bi at-ta ki-ma a-an-ni ta-pu-la-an-ni	You, my father, have spoken to me as follows:
11	ka-ni-kam szu-a-ti szu-bi-lam-ma	Send me that sealed document, so that
12	{disz}{d}nanna-ma-an-szum2 a-na la szu-a-at-tim	Nanna-manšum, in perpetuity
13	la u2-sza-ad-ba-ba-an-ni-ma	does not slander me, and
14	ki-ma i-na-an-na-ma a-na a-bi-ia ka-ta	Now, speak to my father as follows:
15	lu-uk-ta-ar-ra-ab	I will send to you.
obverse
1	a-na a-bi-ia	to my father
seal 1
1	{d}inanna# nin gal [mah]	For Inanna, great mistress, great
2	an ki BA BU# GA2#?	heaven and earth
3	an-na-bu-[um]	Annabum
4	geme2 ni2-tuku-zu#-[x]	a female slave who does not have a husband
5	igi sa6-ga-zu-ta#?	From your beautiful eyes
6	hul2-esz bar#-[ma-ab]	May it rejoice over me.

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