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VS 16, 086 (P372941)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 086
ID	P372941
Museum no.	VAT 07571
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 {d}utu-na-s,i-ir	to Šamaš-nāṣir
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma in-bi-er-s,e-tim-ma	Inbi-erṣetim speaks thus:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}inanna li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and Inanna keep you alive!
5	a-na _1(u) gin2 uruda_ asz-pur-ra-ak-kum-ma	I sent to you for 10 shekels of copper.
6	u2-ul tu-sza-bi-lam	you did not send me.
7	a-nu-um-ma hu-za-lum	Herewith, Huzalum
8	at,-t,ar-da-ak-kum	I have sent to you.
9	ma-hi-ra-am u2-sza-asz-qal4	the other one shall raise.
10	_1(u) gin2 uruda_ szu-bi-lam	10 shekels of copper send me!
reverse
1	um-ma at-ta-a-ma	Thus you:
2	_gu4# hi-a_ a-na-sa3-ha-am	oxen I shall slaughter
3	[_a]-sza3# sze-gesz-i3_ e-te-ri-isz	a field of sesame he cultivated
4	a-na s,e-er {d}utu-ra-bi	to Šamaš-rabi
5	na-pa-hi-im a-li-ik-ma	“The enemy went, and
6	asz-szum ru-qi2-im	because of the harvest
7	t,e4-em-szu ga-am-ra-am	his full report
8	szu-up-ra-am	send!

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