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VS 26, 035 (P358203)

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

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Designation	VS 26, 035
ID	P358203
Museum no.	VAT 09273
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
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	um-ma [im]-di3-dingir-ma	Imdi-ilum speaks thus:
2	a-na puzur4-a-szur3	to Puzur-Assur
3	qi2-bi-ma a-ma-la	Speak, and I will see.
4	te9-er-ti-a	in the extispicy
5	i-hi-id-ma sza-s,e2-er-ma	he gathered, and he went out, and
6	i3-li2-ba-ni	Ilī-bani,
7	en-um-a-szur3	Enum-Assur,
8	_dumu_ su2-ka3-li-a	son of Sukaliya,
9	lu a-li-ku-u2	may they go.
10	isz-ti-ku-nu	with you
reverse
1	lu _an-na_ lu _tug2# hi-a_	either tin or textiles
2	mi3-ma sza u2-pa2-zu-ru-ni	whatever he requests
3	te9-er-ta-ka3	in the tērta
4	li-li-ka3-ma	may he come, and
5	uz2-ni pi2-te9-ma	“My ears are open’,
6	u3 a-na-ku a-na-kam	and I myself
7	ma-al-ki	of Malku,
8	la2-as,-ba-at-ma	I shall seize, and
9	u2-za-ka3 la2-ap2-te	he will clear the deficit.

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