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ARM 18, 037 (P351506)

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

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Designation	ARM 18, 037
ID	P351506
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 Mukannishim
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ri-ip-i-{d}da-gan	Thus Ripi-Dagan:
4	a-hu-ka-a-ma	your brother
5	isz-tu u4-mi-im sza i-na ma-ri{ki}	from the day that in Mari
6	nu-s,e-e-em a-la-ak-ni _kaskal-a_	“Let us go on the road!’
7	mi-im-ma u2-ul qi2-pa-ku	nothing I shall say
8	i-na-an-na a-na a-la-ak#	Now, to go
reverse
1	_kaskal-a lugal_ ma-di*-[isz a-qa-al]	I will make the king's journey as far as he can.
2	szum-ma i-na ki-tim a#-[hi at-ta]	If in another country, you
3	u3 ta-ra-am-ma-an-ni	and you love me,
4	1(disz) _sila3 i3 du10-ga_ 1(disz) {kusz}gu-sa-na-am	1 qû good oil, 1 gusanam-shoe
5	1(disz) {kusz}na-da-am u3 1(disz) {kusz}me-sze-na-am	1 sandal and 1 mešenam-shoe
6	mi-t,i-it _kaskal-a_ an-ni-tim	the wrongdoing of this road
7	a-hi la i-ka-al-la-a-am	the other side shall not eat.

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