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VS 16, 047 (P372902)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 047
ID	P372902
Museum no.	VAT 00802
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 mu-szi-tum	to the night
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma dumu-er-s,e-tim _ensi2_ x	thus Dumu-erṣetim, the governor of ...:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk asz-szu-mi-ia	Šamaš and Marduk, my gods,
5	li-ba-al-li-t,u3-ki	may they keep you alive!
6	sze-a-am sza i-na-di-nu-ki-im	the barley that he will give to you
7	mu-uh-ri-im-ma	received, and
8	_u4_-um sze-a-am i-na-ad-di-nu-ki	If he gives you barley
9	ku-ki-im-ma	..., and
10	szu-bi-lim	send!
11	sze-a-am a-di la i-x-KU-ki#	barley until ...
reverse
1	la <ta>-ma-ha-ri	do not fear!
2	asz-szum t,e4-em a-mu-ri-tum	Concerning the report of Amurrītum
3	pi2-qa2-at i-ki-ru-ki	the responsibility of your enemies,
4	i-na _ku3-babbar_ szu-a-ti	from that silver
5	ha-[ar]-s,a#-ti-szi-im	her limbs
6	x (x) [x (x)]-ki#-im	... ...;
7	sze-a-am a-na-di-in	I will give barley.

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