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ARM 14, 026 (P351366)

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

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Designation	ARM 14, 026
ID	P351366
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# qi2-bi2-ma	Speak to my lord
2	um-ma ia-qi2-im-{d}iszkur	Thus Yaqim-Addu
3	_ARAD2_-ka-a-ma	your servant
4	be-li2 ki-a-am isz-pu-ra-am um-ma-a-mi	My lord wrote me thus:
5	1(disz) _na4_ sza# 2(disz) am-ma-tim ra-ap-sza-at#	1 stone of 2 layers thick,
6	u3# ni#-ka-as2# me-lu#-sza i-na ha-al-s,i2{ki#}	and her radiance in Halṣi
7	bu-u'-'i3-ma szum-ma _na4#_ szi-i it-ta-ab-szi	if that stone he has taken
8	szu-bi-lam szum-ma i-na ha#-al#-s,i2-im	Send me! If in the district
9	_na4_ szi-i la ib-ba-szi a-na la-as2#-qi2-im#	that stone does not exist, to be taken away
10	szu-pu-ur-ma 1(disz) _na4_ sza 2(disz) am-ma-tim ra#-ap-sza-at	write down, and one stone of two widths
11	u3 ni-ka-as2 me-lu-sza li-il-qu2-nim	and may her radiance take precedence.
12	[an]-ni-tam be-li2 isz-pu-ra-am	This my lord wrote to me.
13	[ha]-al#-s,a-am ka-la-szu	the totality of all
14	u2#-ba-'i3-ma mi-im-ma	he shall weigh out, and everything
15	_na4#_ sza 2(disz) am-ma-tim ra-ap-sza-at	a stone of 2 layers wide
reverse
16	u3 ni-ka-as2 me-lu-sza#	and the nīkaš ritual of her splendor
17	u2-ul i-ba-asz-szi	there is none.
18	i-na-an-na u4-um t,up-pi2 an-ni-im	Now, the day of this tablet
19	a#-na s,e-er be-li2-ia u2-sza-bi-lam	to my lord I sent.
20	asz-szum _na4_ sza be-li2 isz-pu-ra-am bu-u'-'i3-i-im	Concerning the stone about which my lord wrote to me: "Buʾʾûm"
21	a-na la-as2-qi2-im asz-pu-ur u3 i-na pa#-ni-tim	I wrote to the king, my lord, and before
22	i-nu-ma {na4}zi-ik#?-ka#?-nam	When zikkanam stone
23	il-qu2-nim be-li2 ki-a-am isz-pu-ra-am um-ma-a-mi	My lord wrote me thus:
24	szu-pu-ur-ma _lu2-mesz_ he-pu-u2 sza na-ag-be2-em	send, and the broken men of the fates
25	li-il-li-ku-nim-ma qi2-isz-ta-szu#-nu	"Let them come and take their hand.
26	lu-ud-di-in-szu-nu-szi-im a-na _lu2-mesz_ szu-nu-ti	let me give them to those men.
27	asz-szum a-na ma-ri{ki} a-la-ki-szu-nu asz-pu-ur-ma#	Because I was going to Mari, I wrote and
28	ki-a-am i-pu-lu-ni-in-ni5 um-ma-a-mi sza-at-tum	“How did they build me, my mother-in-law, this year?
29	dan#-na-at asz-szum qi2-isz-tim a-na ma-ri{ki} ni-la-kam-ma	strong because of the gift to Mari we shall go and
30	an-na-nu-um _gu4 hi-a_-ni u3 _ansze hi-a_-ni i-ma-qu2-tu	Now, his oxen and his donkeys are missing.
31	be-el-ni sza pa-qa-di-im li-ip-qi2-da-an-ni-ti#	May our lord, who is appointed, appoint me.
32	an-ni-tam i-pu-lu-ni-in-ni5 i-na-an-na	This is what they did to me. Now
33	hi#-is-sa3-at szu-mi-szu-nu sza szu-bu-lim	Their names are “šubūlim-disease"(?).
34	be#-li2 li#-sza#-bi-lam-ma lu-sza-pi2-ru-szu-nu-szi-im	My lord should send me so that I may send them.
left
35	_lu2-mesz_ szu-nu a-na hi-szi-ih-ti be-li2-ia ma-di-isz	these men greatly for the protection of my lord
36	na-a'-du

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