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CT 04, pl. 29, Bu 1888-05-12, 0505 (P355810)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CT 04, pl. 29, Bu 1888-05-12, 0505
ID	P355810
Museum no.	BM 078594
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Coordinates	33.0605, 44.2552

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	ki-ma isz-tu la-bi-ir-tim	like from old
2	_e2_-ti na-ap-t,a-ri-ia	the house of my seals
3	szi-sa-am u3 a-hi-tam	šisam and dependents
4	la ku-ul-lu-mu	not to smite
5	u2-ul ti-de-e	you did not know.
6	i-na-an-na ki-ma _e2_ na-ap-t,a-ri-ia	Now, like the house of my seals
7	bu-uz-zu-u2
8	{disz}ta-ri-bu-um a-hu-ka	Tarībum, your brother
9	iq-bi-a-am	spoke to me,
reverse
1	ki-ma a-wi-lu-ti-ka	like your man
2	ra#-bi-tim a-na _lu2_ de-ki-i	great to the man of Ekî
3	[qi2]-bi-ma	speak!
4	a-na _e2_-ti la# i-sza-as2-su2	shall not raise a claim concerning the house.
5	a-na sza asz-pu-ra-ak-kum	to what I wrote to you
6	la tu-usz-ta-a	do not abandon!

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