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CT 43, 096 (P313386)

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

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Designation	CT 43, 096
ID	P313386
Museum no.	BM 108435
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 it-ti-_{d}utu_-ba-la-su	to Itti-Šamaš-balāssu
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma _{d}mar-tu_-ma-gir-ma	thus Marduk-magir:
4	_{d}utu_ u3 _{d}marduk_ li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
5	{disz}sza-lim-pa-li-ih-_{d}utu_ x x	Šalim-paliḫ-Šamaš
6	a-na s,e-ri-ka at,-t,ar-dam	I have sent to you.
7	_sze_-e sza _bad3_-ha-am-mu-ra-pi2	barley of the wall of Hammurapi
8	sza i-ba-asz-szu-u2 tap-pu-ut-su2	who there is, his companions
9	a-li-ik-ma a-na _{gesz}ma2_ szu-ur-ki-ib	I went, and to the boat I anchored.
10	u3 i-na _sze_-im a-hi-tim	and from the barley of the dependents
11	sza i-ba-asz-szu-u2	that there is
reverse
1	1(u) _sze gur_ i-di-isz-szum	10 gur of barley he gave him,
2	_sze_-um szu-u2 i-na i-ni-ka	that barley from your account
3	la i-iq-qi2-ir	he shall not take away.

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