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CT 29, pl. 04, BM 028476 (P365939)

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

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Designation	CT 29, pl. 04, BM 028476
ID	P365939
Museum no.	BM 028476
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 lu2-{d}ba-ba6	to Lu-Baba
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma a-hu-um-ma	Thus Aḫum:
4	asz-szum sze-im	Concerning the barley
5	lu2-ur-mah	Lu-urmah
6	u3 ih-bi-it-er3#-ra	and Ihbit-Erra
7	[...]-x-i3-li2	...-ili
reverse
1'	x x x x x x
2'	li-ki-nu-[u2]	may they establish.
3'	ma-la u2-sza-di-nu-ma#	as much as they gave to me, and
4'	a-na lu2-ur-mah	to Lu-urmaḫ
5'	i-di-nu	they gave.
6'	ma-la szu-nu ih-bu-lu <<ma>>	as many as they killed,
7'	bi-ra-am-ma	he has been captured, and
8'	szu-up-ra-am	send!
9'	u3 u-bar-{d}suen	and Ubar-Suen
10'	i-na a-li-szu	in his city
11'	ma-la il#-qu2-u2	as much as they took
12'	be2-ra-am-ma	he swore, and
left
1	szu-up-ra-am	send!

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