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Prag 543 (P359149)

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

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Designation	Prag 543
ID	P359149
Museum no.	Prague I 543
Collection	Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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 i-na-a qi2-bi4-ma	Speak thus:
2	um-ma puzur2-a-szur-ma a-na-kam	Thus Puzur-Assur: what is this?
3	bur-a-szur t,up-pa2-am	Bur-Assur, the tablet
4	sza hu-bu-ul puzur2-su2-en6	of the debt of Puzur-Suen
5	a-szar i3-li2-we-da-ku	where Ilī-wedakku
6	u2-sze2-s,i2-a-ma a-na	he brought out and to
7	{d}en-lil2-ba-ni um-ma	Enlil-bani, thus:
8	a-na-ku-ma t,up-pa2-am	I, the scribe,
9	qa2-at-ni
10	li-is,-ba-at-ma	may he seize and
11	u2 ti2-be-ma at-la2-ak	and I will go.
reverse
1	ki-ma i-ta-bu-lim	when he has died
2	ra-ma-szu	his own
3	bur-a-szur i-ta-na-ba-al	Burašur will weigh it out.
4	um-ma szu-ut-ma a-na-ku-ma	Thus (says) he: I:
5	a-la2-ak u2 t,up-pa2-am	I will go and my tablet
6	u2-ba-al-szu	he shall pay.
7	a-ta ma-la2-ka3	from the water poured,

Sources & licences

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