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ATHE 35 (P358367)

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

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Designation	ATHE 35
ID	P358367
Museum no.	HD —
Collection	Heidelberger Orientalisches Seminar, Heidelberg, 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	a-na szu-ku-bi-im u3	to Šukubum and
2	a-szur3-pi2-la2-ah	Assur-pilah,
3	a-na szu-ku-bi-im qi2-bi-ma	Speak to Šukubum:
4	um-ma a-szur-na-da#-ma / _ku3-babbar_	Thus Assur-nada: silver
5	sza a-na tap-hi-ri#-im# sza szar-ma-te2-en	that to the companions of the queens
6	a-bu-ni / i-hi-ib-lu	(Sum) My father, he smote me. (Akk) His father, the smiter.
7	a-na-kam / is,-bu-tu3-ni-ma	Why did they seize me?
8	um-ma szu-nu-ma / _ku3-babbar_ / hu-bu-ul	thus they: silver for robbery
9	a-bi-ka3 / szu-qul2 / um-ma a-na-ku-ma	“Your father is slaughtered, thus I:
10	_ku3-babbar_ / tal-ta-qe2-a-ma _ku3-babbar_	silver you took, and the silver
11	e-s,u2-ma / a-hu-ur / ta-ah-si2-sa3-tum	(If) he is blind, he will die of hunger.
12	sza a-bi-a / i-ba-szi2-a um-ma	of my father there is, thus:
13	szu-nu#-ma / ta-ah-si2-sa3-tim	They are Tahsisātum
14	sza a-bi-ka3 / sze2-s,i2-a-ma	that your father sent out, and
15	lu ne2-mu-ur / isz-te2-en6	“May it be a nēmû-demon!
16	sza ki-ma / ku-a-ti2 / u3 isz-ti2-a	that like a gift and with me
17	a-hi-a-am / isz-ti2-a e-ru-ub-ma	a brother entered with me, and
18	t,up-pi2 / ni-ip-te2-ma	We opened the tablet and
reverse
1	ta-ah-si2-sa3-tim / nu-sze2-li-ma	the taḫsisātum-festival was not completed, and
2	u2-ka3-li-im-szi2#-na#-ma#	he shall hold them, and
3	u2-sa3-li-szu-[...] x-im	he ... to him
4	ni-qe2-e [...] x x	The offering ...
5	u2 sza [... me-he-er] ta#-ah-si2-sa3-tim	and of ..., the culmination of the battles
6	nu-sze2-x [...] x kum# t,up-pi2	... ... of the tablet
7	ha#-[ar-mu-um sza] ba-ab2-_dingir_-lim	Harmammum of Bāb-ilum
8	[...]-im ni-a-im	... fear
9	[...] i-na me-eh-ri-im	... in the middle
10	[sza t,up-pi2]-im# ha-ar-mi3-im	of the ḫarmum tablet
11	[sza ba]-ab# _dingir_-lim sza e-li-a-ni	Whose god is above me,
12	[sa3-ar x ma]-na 5(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_	... minas 5 shekels of silver
13	[sza] hu-bu-ul / a-la2-hi-im	of the debts of the millers
14	[a-mur]-esz18-dar a-na a-szur3-_sipa_	Amur-Ishtar to Ashur-re'i
15	isz#-qul2 um-ma a-szur3-_sipa_-ma	Ashur-rēši said thus:
16	a-na a-mur-esz18-dar-ma 1(disz) _ma-na_-ka3	to Amur-Ištar, 1 mina
17	ma-t,i2-i 1(disz) _ma-na_-u2-szu	the deficit: 1 mina.
18	ik-ta-ma / 1(disz) 1/2(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_	he sealed and 1 1/2 shekels of silver
19	i-di2-szu-um _igi_ li-ba-a	before Libâ
20	_dumu_ u2-zu-a / _igi_ en-na-nim	son of Uzua, before Ennanum
left
1	sa3-be-e-em / na!-ab2-su2-en6 _dumu_ {d}AB-ba-ni	Sabem, son of Abbani
2	tap-pa2-i-ni / a-na a-wa-tim	our counsel to the word
3	a-ni#-a-tim ka3-ru-um ka3-ni-isz	These are the karûm offerings, the kaniš offerings.
4	i-[di2-ni-a]-ti2-ma	gave to me, and
5	[_igi gir2_ sza a-szur szi2-bu-ti2-ni ni-di2-in]	before the sword of Assur, our witnesses, we gave.

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