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CT 43, 123 (P313413)

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

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Designation	CT 43, 123
ID	P313413
Museum no.	BM 017542
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	_{d}marduk_ ra-i-im-ka	Marduk, your love,
2	asz-szu-mi-ia li-la-ab-bi-ir-ka	May my (own) name be proclaimed to you.
3	lu# sza-al-ma-ta	May you be well!
4	ki#-ma asz-pu-ra-ak-kum	As I wrote to you
5	sza#-at-ta-am _4(disz) gu4-hi-a_	a total of 4 oxen
6	at,-t,a-ar-ra-da-ak-kum#	I have sent to you
7	_1(esze3) iku_ a-na _sze-gisz-i3_	1 eše3 of oil for sesame
8	a-mu-ur2-ma e-pu-usz	I saw and I did.
9	u3 _2(bur3) iku a-sza3 DI DI erim_	and 2 bur3 iku of field DI DI of the enemy
10	sze-am# lu-li#-a-am	barley of Luliam
reverse
1	a-na _sum{sar}_ u3 _sum el-lum{sar}_	for the price and the price of ellum
2	szu-bu-li-im	Šubulum
3	ni-di a-hi-im la ta-ra-asz-szi	Do not abandon the companions!
4	ki-ma _u8-udu-hi-a_-ka sza-ap-ti	like your ewes, the ears
5	a-na sza-am-mi	to the heavens
6	t,e4-ma-am szu-up-ra-am-ma	Send me a report!
7	_gu4-hi-a_ lu-ut,-ru-da-ak-kum	oxen let me slaughter you.

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