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CT 43, 088 (P313378)
Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 43, 088 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313378 |
| Museum no. | BM 017163 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
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 na-ka-ar-tum qi2-bi2-ma | Speak to Nakartu: |
| 2 | um-ma _{d}suen_-na-di-in-szu-mi-im-ma | Thus (says) Sîn-nādin-šumi: |
| 3 | _{d}utu_ li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ki | May Šamaš keep you alive! |
| 4 | _geme2_ sza _dumu-munus {d}iszkur_-ra-bi | the slave woman of the daughter of Adad-rabi |
| 5 | a-na be-el-ti-sza a-wa-tam | to her lady a word |
| 6 | mu-ru-us, li-ib-bi-ia | who soothes my heart, |
| 7 | asz-pu-ra-am | I sent. |
| 8 | i-na _babila2{ki}_ | in Babylon |
| 9 | a-mur-szi-ma | I saw her, and |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 um-ma szi-i-ma | and thus she: |
| 2 | t,e4-mi _igi_ na-ka-ar-tim | report before the nakārtum |
| 3 | a-sza-ka-an-ma sza ha-di-ka | I will place, and of your joy |
| 4 | a-sza-pa-ra-ak-kum | I will send to you. |
| 5 | t,e4-em-sza ga-am-ra-am | her full report |
| 6 | li-im-di-im-ma szu-up-ri | May he write me and I will send it to you. |
| 7 | {disz}i3-li2-na-ap-sze-ra | Ilī-napšera, |
| 8 | szu-up-ri-im | send! |
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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