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ARM 18, 020 (P351489)

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

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Designation	ARM 18, 020
ID	P351489
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 mu-ka-an-ni-szi-im#	to Mukannišim
2	qi2#-bi2#-ma	speak!
3	[um-ma be-el-ka]-a-ma	thus your lord:
4	[asz-szum szi-pi2-ir _tug2_] ta-ad#-de-tim	because of the work on the garments of the taddētim
5	[...] _us2_	... it became stationary
6	[...] 1(disz) {kusz#}gu-sa-na-am	... 1 leather bag
7	sza _3(u) ma-na siki_ ha-li-im#	of 30 minas of mixed wool
8	i-na li-ib-bi {kusz}gu#-[sa-ni]	in the middle of the throne
9	sza isz-tu babila2#[{ki}]	which from Babylon
10	ub-lu-nim usz-ta#-bi-la#-[kum]	I brought to you, I sent to you.
reverse
1	{kusz#}gu#-sa#-[na-am ...]	The gusanam garment
2	[...]
3	[...]
4	[x] x x le-qe2-ma	take ... and
5	sza-pi2-il-tum lu-u2 na-as,-ra*	The šāpiltu-demon shall be guarded.
6	{disz}{munus}{d}iszkur-du-ri#	Iškur-duri
7	li-ik-nu-uk-szi-na-ti	May they seal them.

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