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VS 16, 031 (P372886)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 031
ID	P372886
Museum no.	VAT 00809
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-ia-tim#	to Adayatum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma i3-li2-isz-me-a-ni-ma	Ilišmeanni speaks thus:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk	Šamaš and Marduk
5	li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive.
6	i-nu-u2-<ma> a-na _ku3-babbar_	when for silver
7	asz-pu-ra-ak-kum	I sent to you.
8	um-ma a-na-ku-u2-ma	thus I:
9	1(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_ wa-at-ra-am	1 shekel of silver is the debt
10	u3 _ku3-babbar_ dam-qa2-am	and the good silver
11	szu-bi-lam	send me!
reverse
1	at-ta-a	you
2	_ku3-babbar_ sza a-na s,i-bu-tim	the silver that for the requisition
3	la i-re-e-du-u2	they shall not go out
4	tu-sza-bi-lam	you sent me.
5	a-nu-um-ma _ku3-babbar_ u2-te-ra-kum	Now the silver has returned to you
6	_ku3-babbar_ ka-ni-ik-tam	the silver of the guarantee
7	szu-bi-lam	send me!

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