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CT 43, 069 (P313359)

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

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Designation	CT 43, 069
ID	P313359
Museum no.	BM 108428
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 be-ti-i	to Beti
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma nam-ra-tum-ma	Namratum speaks thus:
4	[_{d}utu]_ u3 _{d}marduk_ da-ri-isz _u4_-mi	Šamaš and Marduk forever.
5	[li-ba]-al-li-t,u2-ki	may they keep you alive!
6	[i-na] e-da-di-im sza _e2_-ni	at the rent of the house
7	2(asz) _sze gur_ a-na i3-li2-i-din-nam	2 kor of barley for Ilī-iddinam
8	usz-ri-i-ma	he established, and
9	i-na e2-da-di-im	in the Edadim
10	sza a-na za-al-x-x	which to ...
11	li-isz-qu2-lu	may they pluck up.
reverse
1	{disz}{d}tasz-me-tum-ma-gi-ra-at	Tašmetum-magirat
2	id-ni-szum	gave to him,
3	tap-pu-ut-zu	your companions
4	li-il-li-ik	may he go.
5	a-na _u4 5(disz) kam_ a-la-kam	on the 5th day I will go.
6	a-na pa-ni-ia	to my presence
7	li-isz3-te-er-si	may he return to her.

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