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ARM 06, 006 (P338944)

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

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Designation	ARM 06, 006
ID	P338944
Museum no.	NMSDeZ — ?
Collection	National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Mari (mod. Tell Hariri)
Coordinates	34.5504, 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.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	a-na be-li2-ia	To my lord
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ba-ah-di-li-im	Thus Baḫdi-Lim
4	_ARAD2_-ka-a-ma	your servant
5	ra-ki-bu-um sza na-ah-lim	the rākībum priestess of Naḫlim,
6	sza di-ir{ki}	of Dīr
7	sza na-ah-lum ib#-tu#-qu2	of the naḫlum-tax they have incurred
8	u2-sza-asz-pi2-ik	he made perfect.
9	a-na asz-ri-szu	to his place
10	tu-u2-ur	to return
reverse
1	u4-um t,up-pi2 an-ne2-em	The day of this tablet
2	a-na s,e-er be-li2-ia	to my lord
3	u2-sza-bi-lam	he sent.
4	me-e a-na di-ir{ki}	water to Dīr
5	u2-sze#-ti-iq	he caused to pass
6	a-di me-e a-na di-ir{ki}	until water to Dīr
7	la u2-sze-ti-qu2	did not let pass,
8	a-na s,e-er be-li2-ia	to my lord
9	u2-ul asz-pu-ra-am	I did not send.

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