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TCL 20, 139 (P357705)

Letter, Old Assyrian, Kanesh · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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Designation	TCL 20, 139
ID	P357705
Museum no.	AO 09330
Collection	Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)
Coordinates	38.8517, 35.6365

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	2(u) 1(disz) [...]	21 ...,
2'	it-ba-al	he dug.
3'	1/3(disz) _ma-na_ 2(disz) _gin2_	1/3 mina 2 shekels
4'	_ku3-babbar ansze_ it-ba-al	the silver of the donkey he paid.
5'	4(disz) _ma-na_	4 minas
6'	_an-na_ qa2-tim 1/3(disz) _ma-na_	of tin 1/3 mina
7'	_ku3-babbar_ 3(disz) _gin2_ u2-nu-ut	silver, 3 shekels of furnishings
8'	_ansze_ 1(disz) _gin2#_ [sza] sa3-e-tim	a donkey of 1 shekel of coarse flour
9'	4(disz) 1/4(disz) _gin2_ [wa]-s,i2-tum	4 1/4 shekels of wax
10'	8(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_ ig-ri	8 shekels of silver, wages
11'	sa3-ri-dim _szunigin_ 4(disz) _ma-na_ 1/2(disz) _gin2_	saridim, total: 4 1/2 minas
left
1	sza x [...]-x	of ...
2	sza dan-a-szur3 sza a-na	of Dan-Assur, which to
3	a-szur-gal ip-qi2-du	Ašur-gal appointed.

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