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VS 16, 053 (P372908)

Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	VS 16, 053
ID	P372908
Museum no.	VAT 04211
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

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-si2-rum	to Asirum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma zi-kir-i3-li2-szu-<ma>	Zikir-ilišu speaks thus:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	asz-szum _e2-gal_ isz-pu-ru	concerning the palace he sent
6	sza it-ti-ia#	who with me
7	a-na# _e2_ {d}id2-ga-mil#	to the temple of Idgamil
8	[sza] ta-aq-bi-[a]-am	which you said
9	[szu]-up-ra-am-ma	send me, and
10	i-na _{gesz}ban2 kar#-ra_	with a bow of the quay
11	sze-a-am da-am-qa2-am	good barley
reverse
1	i-na me-sze20-qi2-im	in a battle
2	li-id-di-nu-nim	they should give me.
3	sza asz-pu-ra-ak-kum	that I sent to you
4	la ta-ka-al-la-am	do not hold back!
5	s,i-bu-tum ma-di-isz	the ṣibtu-offering very greatly
6	i-na na-pi-isz-tim	in the night
7	ta-na-ad-di-a-an-ni	you have given me,

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