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VS 16, 002 (P372859)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	VS 16, 002
ID	P372859
Museum no.	VAT 00717
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Coordinates	33.0605, 44.2552

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 la-ma-as-sum2	to Lamassum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ki-ma-a-hi-ia-ma	Thus Kimahiya:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ki	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
5	ki-ma isz-tu ma-ah-ri-ki	like before you
6	u2-s,i2-a-am a-hi a-wi-lim	a brother of a man
7	mi-it-ma a-na ma-ra-ad{ki}	whatever to Marad
8	usz-te-er-di	he made enter.
9	a-di al-li-ku	until I went
10	sza al-qi2-a-am	that I took
11	i-na babila2{ki} e-zi-ib-ma	in Babylon he fled, and
reverse
1	ih-ta-al-qu2	has stolen,
2	2(disz) _sila3_ u2-hu-li	2 qû of uhulu-plant,
3	u2-sza-bi-la-ki-im	I sent to you.
4	u3 a-na sza tup-pa-am	and for the tablet
5	u2-ba-la-ki-im	he shall carry out.
6	hu-de-e 5(disz) qi2-isz-szu-e	5 ḫudê-containers,
7	szu-bi-lim	send!
8	u3 me-he-er tup-pi2-ia	and the remainder of my tablet
9	szu-bi-lim	send!

Sources & licences

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