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VS 16, 030 (P372885)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 030
ID	P372885
Museum no.	VAT 00923
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-da-a-ia-ti	to Adāyati
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma dingir-{d}utu-ma	thus Ilī-šamaš:
4	{d}utu u3 il-ka li-ba-al-li2-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and your god keep you alive!
5	sza-al-ma-ak-ku a-na kur-da{ki}	Šalmakku to Kurda
6	e-te-ru-ub	entered.
7	szum-ma _ku3-babbar_ sza _tug2 hi-a_ sza a-na qa3-t,a3-na{ki}	If the silver of the textiles which to Qatana
8	u2-sza-bi-lu i-ta-[al]-ka#-ak-ku	they have sent, they will weigh out.
9	i-ia-ri a-nu-um-mu-u2-[tim]	Iyari, Anum-mūtim
10	sza i-na _iri_ zimbir{ki}	which in Sippar
11	le-qe2	he shall take.
reverse
1	isz-tu tup-pi2 an-ni-im	From this tablet
2	a-di re-esz _iti_ an-ni-im	until the beginning of this month
3	a-na s,e-ri-ka a-ka-asz-sza-dam	I will bring it to you.
4	la ta-na-az-zi-iq	Do not be negligent!

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