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CT 29, pl. 03, BM 023823 (P365938)

Letter, Early Old Babylonian, Kisurra · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE

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Designation	CT 29, pl. 03, BM 023823
ID	P365938
Museum no.	BM 023823
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Kisurra (mod. Abu Hatab)
Coordinates	31.8383, 45.4810

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 li-pi2-it#-[esz18-dar]	to Lipit-Ištar
2	u3 _lu2-[{d}ba-ba6]_	and Lu-Baba
3	qi2-bi2-[ma]	speak!
4	um-ma a-hu-um-ma#	Thus Aḫumma
5	{disz}su-mu-a-bu-um	Sumū-abum,
6	it-ti {disz}bu-ut-ta-tim	with Buttātum,
7	pu-uz-zu
8	u2-te-bi-ib	he has released.
9	ma-ma-an	nobody
10	a-na sza-szi-im	to the king
11	a-sza-ti-szu	his wife
reverse
1	u3# ma-re-e-szu	and his wife
2	ma-ma-an	nobody
3	la i-t,e4-he-e	he shall not return.
4	a-na s,e-er umma{ki}	to Umma
5	i-te#-er-ba#-am	has entered
6	ma-ma-an	nobody
7	la i-sza-gi#-isz#-[szu]	he shall not raise him.
8	pu-uz#-[zu]	scepter
9	e-be2-[it]	he conquered
10	a-na la# [sze-mi-ia]	not listen to me!
left
1	a-sza-al-ku-nu-ut	I will ask you.

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