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VS 16, 028 (P372883)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 028
ID	P372883
Museum no.	VAT 01080
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 qi2-bi2#-ma#	Speak to a man
2	um-ma id-da-tum-ma	Thus Iddatum:
3	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
4	lu sza-al-ma-a-ta	May you be well!
5	<sza> ta-aq-bi-a-am	of what you said
6	u2-ul am-gu-ur-ka	I did not establish for you.
7	a-na bu-ra-tum ki-a-am aq-bi	I said thus to Buratum:
8	um-ma a-na-ku-u2-ma	thus I:
9	ki-ma sza-ad-da-aq-dam	like a šaddaqdam
10	ka-ni-kam lu-ud-di-na-ak-kum	Let me give you a firm positive answer.
reverse
1	um-ma szu-ma	Thus (says) he:
2	it-ti ip-qu2-sza-ma tap-pa-a-ZU	with her husband,
3	a-na ma-ah-ri-ka at,-t,ar-da-asz-szu	I have sent him to you.
4	s,e-eh-ra-am a-hi	a young child, a brother
5	t,u2-ur-dam	to be returned.

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