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VS 16, 023 (P372879)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 023
ID	P372879
Museum no.	VAT 00963
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 sza-pi2-ri-ia	to my messenger
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma a-li2-ta-li-mi-ma	Thus Ali-talimma:
4	asz-szum _ma2-lah5_ sza _ma2-i3-dub_	Concerning the boatman of the sailor
5	sza sza-pi2-ri isz-pu-ra-am	of the šapiru he sent
6	i-na _ma2-lah5_ 1(disz) _lu2_ mah-ri-ia	from the boatman, 1 man before me
7	u2-ul wa-szi-ib	he did not dwell.
8	{disz}e-tel-pi4-{d}utu na-asz-pa-ra-am	Etel-pî-šamaš the messenger
9	sza ma-ah-ri-ia	which before me
10	_u4_-um tup-pi2 sza-pi2-ri-ia	the day my tablet of my letter
11	a-mu-ru-u2	I saw
reverse
1	i-na _iti gu4-si-sa2 u4 2(u)-kam_	in the month of Addarum, the 20th day
2	a-na a-li-isz-tu-tu	to Alištu
3	ap-qi2-da-asz-szu-ma	I entrusted to him, and
4	a-na ma-har sza-pi2-ri-ia	before my messenger
5	at,-t,ar-da-asz-szu	I sent to him.

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