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VS 16, 013 (P372870)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 013
ID	P372870
Museum no.	VAT 00797
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 i-ku-un-pi4-{d}suen	to Ikūn-pî-Si’an
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma _dumu-munus lugal_-ma	thus the daughter of the king:
4	tup-pi2 i-na a-ma-ri-im	a tablet in the morning
5	s,a-bi-it {disz}{d}suen-a-ha-am-i-din-nam _dumu_ nu-x-x	captured Sîn-aham-iddinam, son of Nu
6	_sipa sila4 hi-a_-ia szu-ri-a-am	shepherd of the lambs of my own free will
7	{disz}{d}suen-ma-gir ma-ki-su-um	Sîn-māgir, the kisum-official
8	szu-mi iz-ku-ra-ku-ma	“My name is Iškurākū
9	ma-ki-su-um su2-ku-up	“The kīsû-demon, the suckling,
10	a-wi-lam szu-a-ti	that man
11	u2-ul tu-sza-ri-a-am	you did not send me.
reverse
1	a-na a-bi-ia	to my father
2	a-sza-pa-ar	I will send.

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