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CT 44, 58 (P345563)

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

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Designation	CT 44, 58
ID	P345563
Museum no.	BM 080510
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	a-na mu-na-wi-ir-tum qi2-bi2#-[ma]	Speak to Munawirtu
2	um-ma i3-li2-us,-ra-an-ni-ma [x-x-x-x-x-x]	Thus Ilī-uṣaranni: ...
3	t,up-pa-ki sza tu-sze-bi-lim isz-[x-x-x-x-x-x]	Your tablet that you sent to me ...
4	ta-asz-pu-ri um-ma at-ti-ma asz-[szum a-di i-]na#-an-na	As to what you wrote me: "Until now
5	a-na szu-ul-mi-ka la asz-pu-ra-ku szi-ru#-ka	I did not write to you for your well-being, but your word
6	i-na-zi-iq a-na-ku ki-ma s,e2-he-er-tam la ti-szi-i	“If you do not have a flock,
7	u2-ul i-di-ma u3 szi-ri i-na-zi-iq	he does not know, and he will kill.
8	u3 sza-ni-tam asz-szum ra-ma-asz sza ta-asz-pu-ri um-ma at-ti-ma	Furthermore, concerning the name of which you wrote, thus:
9	szu-ri-szi-mi a-di-ni bu-ni _e2-gal_-lim	grant to her, until the foundation of the palace
10	u2-ul ni-im-ma-ar-ma s,e2-he-er-ni u3 s,e2-he-er-ta-ni	We did not see one another, but we saw one another.
11	_ka2 e2-gal_ u2-ul u2-s,i2 i-nu-ma bu-ni _e2-gal_-lim	at the gate of the palace he did not go out; when the property of that palace
12	ni-ta-am-ru lu-sza-ra-ki-isz-szi	Let us keep watch over her.
13	a-ia-ti-ia _geme2 ir3_-i3-li2-szu _{tug2}gu2-e3-a_	my enemies, female slaves of Ir-ilišu, a cloak
14	_{tug2}bar-si bar-si_ u3 5(disz) KI?-isz-sza-tim ub-lam	a cloak, a band, and 5 ... he brought.
15	mi-nu-um an-nu-um sza tu-usz-ta-na-ba-li	[What] is it that you keep on searching for?
16	it-ti du-li ki-ma i-na bu-bu-ti-ki	with the work like in your wailing
17	ta-na-sza-ri-ma u3 tu-sza-ba-lam	You will give (them) to drink, and you will make (it) abundant.
18	i-as,-ma-a sza a-na szu-ul-mi-ia	He who for my well-being
reverse
1	ta-sza-pa-ri u3 TU?-BI?-e tu-sza-ba-lim	You will send (them) to me, and then you will bring them to me.
2	a-nu-um-ma 5(disz) ma-na _sig2_ a-ia-ti-ia	Now, 5 minas of wool of my enemies
3	u2-sze-bi-la-ki-im i-na _sig2_ sza lu-bu-usz-ti-ia	I sent to you. In the wool of my lubuštu-service
4	ba-sza-tim ub-lu-ni-ki la ta-qa-bi-i	Do not say:
5	um-ma at-ti-ma a-hi a-na a-li-szu il-li-ik-ma	Thus (says) yo[u]: a brother went to his city.
6	da-ha-at-ni u2-ul i-sza-al sza-li	He will not listen to my prayers.
7	u2-li iq-bu-ni-ki ki-ma isz-tu u4-mi-im	“Why has he said to you that from the day
8	sza a-na a-li-ia al-li-ku i-na szu-ub-tim	that I went to my city, in the desert
9	t,a3-ab-tim la usz-bu _ka2 ka2-gal_ a-li-ia	Good things that I did not establish at the gate of the city gate
10	i-sza-ri-isz la u2-s,u2-u2 u3 me-ri-isz e-ri-szu	(Sum) He does not go out, he does not come out (Akk) Išariš is not going out, and he goes out on his own
11	la u2-sze-ri-bu# u3 mi-im-mu	they did not let enter, and everything
12	du-mu-uq _e2_-ti-ia asz-hu-t,a3-am-ma	the property of my house I plundered and
13	al-li-kam	I came.

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