Unread Atlas
VS 16, 056 (P372911)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | VS 16, 056 |
|---|---|
| ID | P372911 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01206 |
| 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)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] | |
| 4' | [...] | |
| 5' | id-di-nu [...] | they gave |
| 6' | u3 ma-la# [...] | and as much as |
| 7' | sza be-li2 [...] | of my lord |
| 8' | sza s,a-ab-[...] | of Ṣab- |
| 9' | tu-sza-x [...] | You ... ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-na be-li2-ia la i-sa-an-ni-qu2# | to my lord they shall not fall. |
| 2 | u3 ka-ni-ka sza ma-har _ugula mar-[tu]_ | and your sealed document which before the overseer of Amurru |
| 3 | szu-li-szu | his šulišu |
| 4 | 2(disz) _munus_ s,e-eh-he-re-ti-szu | 2 women, his female slaves |
| 5 | sza ta-ri-ba-tum _ugula mar-tu_ is,#-[ba-tu] | of Tarībatum, the overseer of Amurru, seized. |
| 6 | te-er-szu u3 i-sza-ri#-[isz a-pu-ul-szu] | he returned to him, and he made his work more difficult. |
| 7 | u3 hu-za-lum _sipa_ sza [x x x (x)] | and Huzalum, the shepherd of ... |
| left | ||
| 1 | [x x] x x-ku-nu | ... your ... |
| 2 | [a-na] be#-li2-ia asz-pu-ra-am | I wrote to my lord |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.