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CT 43, 022 (P313312)

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

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Designation	CT 43, 022
ID	P313312
Museum no.	BM 016953
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

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-ka-ti-i	to Akkad
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma a-da-tum-ma	Adatum speaks thus:
4	sza-al-ma-ku {d}utu u3 {d}x	I am well; Šamaš and
5	asz-szu-mi-ia da-ri-isz _u4_-mi# [(x)]	As for me, forever ...
6	li-ba-li-t,u2-ki	may they keep you alive!
7	a-na t,e4-em te-esz15-me-e	to hear the news
8	u3 li-ib-ba-ki ik-ku-du	and your heart he shook.
9	ta-asz-pu-ri-im um-ma at-ti#-[(i)-ma]	You wrote me thus:
10	esz15-me-e-ma at-ta-pa-al-sa3-ah	(Sum) I am a goddess, I constantly seek out (Akk) I seek out the goddesses, I continually seek out
11	mi-im-ma li-ib-ba-ki	everything of your heart
reverse
1	la i-na-ak-ku-ud	he shall not be negligent.
2	i-ba-asz-szi-i sza i-na te-er-ti-ma	What is it that in the return
3	la u2-na-szu-usz-szu	shall not raise him.
4	mi-im-ma hi-t,e4-tum	whatever omission
5	u2-ul i-ba-asz-szi	there is none.

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