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ARM 04, 041 (P338803)

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

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DesignationARM 04, 041
IDP338803
Museum no.NMSD —
CollectionNational Museum of Syria, Damascus, Syria
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotMari (mod. Tell Hariri)
Coordinates34.5504, 40.8887

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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
obverse
1a#-na ia-as2-ma-ah-{d}iszkurto Yasmaḫ-Addu
2qi2-bi2-maspeak!
3um-ma isz-me-{d}da-ganThus Išme-Dagan
4a-hu-ka-a-mayour brother
5i-nu-ma da-wi-di-im tup-pa-amWhen a man a tablet
6u2-sza-bi-la-ak-kumI sent to you.
7x x x x x x [x] x [...]
reverse
1'u3# a#-na# x x x [...]and to ...
2'e-pu-[usz]he built.
3'a-na an-ne2-tim la ta-[na-'i3-id]do not turn back to this.
4'pa-ga-ar-ka u2-[s,u2-ur]your face I shall cover.

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