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TTC 05 (P357850)

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

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Designation	TTC 05
ID	P357850
Museum no.	AO 10364
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	a-na pu-szu-ke-en6	to Pušu
2	qi2-bi-ma um-ma _e2_-a-szar-ma	speak! Thus Ea-shar:
3	a-bi a-ta / be-li2 a-ta	My father, why, my lord, why?
4	a-di2-na-an / li-ba-ka3	I will give it to you.
5	la2 im-ru-s,u2 / ba-ab2-ti2	“If he slips through the cracks of the door,
6	ma-la2 / t,e2-mi3-sza	as much as her report
7	lu ep-sza-at	may it be done.
8	wa-wa-li / a-na	“Wawali to
9	ba-ab2-ti2-a e-zi-ib-ma	Disregard the (formulation) of the extispicy.
10	u3 a-na-ku	and I
reverse
1	ka3-ki / a-la2-qe2-a-ma	I will take the gate, and
2	a-ta-bi-a-ma	I seized, and
3	a-ta-la2-kam / a-di2-i	I shall go as far as
4	te2-er-ti2 / puzur4-a-szur3	extispicy of Puzur-Assur.
5	u3 dan-a-szur3 / a-di2	and Dan-Assur, up to
6	u4-mi3-im / a-nim	The day ...
7	as-hu-ur	I returned.

Sources & licences

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