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VS 16, 016 (P372872)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 016
ID	P372872
Museum no.	VAT 01207
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 a-wi-lim sza {d}marduk u2-ba-al-la-t,u2-szu#	to the man of Marduk they shall release him
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma nam-lugal-a-ni-i3-du10-ma	thus Namlugalanidu:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka#	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
5	lu sza-al-ma-ta lu ba-al-t,a2-ta	Be it good, be it faulty,
6	szu-lum-ka ma-har {d}utu u3 {d}marduk#	Your health before Šamaš and Marduk
7	lu da-ri	may it be forever!
8	{disz}ki-din-{d}mar-tu _ugula e2_ sza _e2_ {d}x-[x-(x)]	Kidin-Amurrum, foreman of the house of the temple of
9	u3 _dingir didli_ zimbir{ki}-am-na-[nu-um]	and all the gods of Sippar
10	ma#-ah#-ri#-ia# ki-a-am id-bu-ub um-ma [szu-u2-ma]	He spoke thus to my predecessor:
11	[x x x] NIN _1(disz)-ta bur-zi_ x x [...]	... ... 1 bowl ...
reverse
1'	ma-la i-na# [...]	as much as in ...

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