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VS 16, 081 (P372936)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Pī-Kasî · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	VS 16, 081
ID	P372936
Museum no.	VAT 07550
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Pī-Kasî (mod. Tell Abu Antiq)
Coordinates	32.1311, 44.6393

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 nu-ur2-{d}utu	to Nur-Šamaš
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}utu-na-s,ir-ma	Thus Šamaš-nāṣir:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	a-nu-um-ma sza-pi2-kum	Herewith, your letter
6	at,-t,a3-ar-da-ak-ku-um	I have sent to you.
7	isz-te-en it-ti-szu _nu-{gesz}kiri6_	together with him the orchardist
reverse
1	[a]-na# [(x)] mu-ur{ki}	to Ur
2	t,u2-ru-ud-ma	may he return, and
3	{disz}a-hu-ni u3 sza-lu-rum	Ahuni and Šallum
4	a-na babila2{ki}	to Babylon
5	a-na s,e-ri-ia li-sze-lu-ni-szu-nu-ti	they should bring them to my country.
6	ma-ah-ri-ka la i-ka-lu-u2	they will not eat before you.
7	ar-hi-isz t,u2-ru-su2-nu-ti	quickly their ṭurusūtu

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