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ARM 06, 009 (P338946)

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

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Designation	ARM 06, 009
ID	P338946
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	_u4 9(disz)-kam_ a-na re-esz szi-ip-ri-im ak-szu-ud	on the 9th day I reached the head of the work.
6	bi-it-qa-am a-mu-ur-ma	I saw a defect, and
7	_8(disz) gi-hi-a_ ru-up-szum	8 reed bundles
8	u3 7(disz) am-ma-tim	and 7 female lambs
9	szu-pu-ul me-e	šupul water
reverse
1	sza bi-it-qi2-im sza-a-tu	of that debt
2	_u4 1(u)-kam_ u3 _u4 1(u) 1(disz)-kam_	10th day and 11th day
3	szu-ra-am a-na-ak-ka-am	“I want to eat, I want to drink.‭
4	_u4 1(u) 2(disz)-kam_ a-na se2-ke-ri-im	12th day for the šakērīm service
5	qa-tam a-sza-ak-ka-an	I will place a hand.
6	be-li2 la i-na-a'2-'i3-id	My lord should not be afraid.

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