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ARM 06, 036 (P338973)

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

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Designation	ARM 06, 036
ID	P338973
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	am-sza-lim _kasz-hi-a_ pi2-ir-sa3-am# a-zu-uz	I am well; beer is poured out; I am pacified.
6	u4-ma-am isz-tu mu-usz-te-er-tim	Every day from the beginning
7	i-na s,u2-up-ri{ki} wa-asz-ba-ku	in Ṣupru I was stationed
8	[u4]-ma-am s,a-bu-um i-pa-ah#-hu-ra-am	Every day the troops will gather.
9	[x x] x x x [...]
10	[...]
11	[...]
reverse
1	[a-na ka-ra-na-a{ki}] a-t,a3#-ar#-ra-ad	to Karanaya I will return.
2	_[1(disz)] dumu_ szi-ip-ri-im	1 son of šiprīm
3	[_lu2_] ka#-ra-na-[a]{ki}	the man of Karana
4	[sza pa]-an _lu2_# s,a#-[bi]-im# i-s,a-ba-tu	Whoever seizes the captive,
5	a-[di-ni u2]-ul# ik#-szu-dam#	until now he has not arrived.
6	[ar-hi-isz] li-ik-szu-dam	quickly he should arrive.

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