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VS 16, 019 (P372875)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 019
ID	P372875
Museum no.	VAT 00575
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 dumu-esz18-dar	to Dumu-Ištar
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma su-mu-am-na-nu-um-ma	Sumūma-namnum (speaks) thus:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
5	ma-ti-ma u2-ul aq-bi-kum-ma	I did not speak to you, and
6	s,i-bu-ti u2-ul te-pu-sza-am	You did not perform the extispicy.
7	_lu2_ szu-ba-ri-i	the man of Šubarî
8	a-na _ku3-babbar_ na-da-nim	for silver was given
9	aq-bi-kum-ma	I said to you
10	a-an-nam ta-pu-la-an-ni-ma	Why did you write to me?
11	e-zi-ba-ak-ku-szu	he shall remove him.
12	a-na mi-nim a-di i-na-an-na	Why, until now
reverse
1	la ta-ad-di-in-szu-ma	you did not give him, and
2	_ku3-babbar_-szu la tu-sza-bi-lam	did not send his silver.
3	ar-hi-isz i-di-isz-szu-ma	quickly he gave him, and
4	_ku3-babbar_-szu szu-bi-lam	send him his silver!

Sources & licences

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