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VS 16, 051 (P372906)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 051
ID	P372906
Museum no.	VAT 01550
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 ...]	to ...
2	qi2-[bi2-ma]	speak!
3	um-ma sa#-[am]-su-di-ta-na-[ma]	Thus Samsu-ditana:
4	_ba-al-gi{ku6} hi-a u3 nig2-bun2-na{ku6} hi#-[a]_	salted fish and nigbunna fish
5	a-na _ki-se3-ga iti NE-NE-gar_	for Kisega, month: “NENEgar,‭
6	ih#-ha-asz-sze-hu	they have smashed.
7	[ki]-ma tup-pi2 an-ni-a-am	according to this tablet
8	ta-am-ma-ra	you will see
9	[x (x)] x _hi-a nig2-szu_ ri-isz-{d}marduk# e li ba lum	... gift of Rīš-Marduk
10	sza i-na _kar_ zimbir{ki}-ia-ah-ru-rum	which in the port of Sippar-Yaḫrum
11	[iz]-za-az-zu	they will stand.
12	[_ba]-al#-gi{ku6} hi-a u3 nig2-bun2-na{ku6} hi-a_	a kind of fish and a type of fish
13	[li]-ba-ru#-ma	they should examine, and

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