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VS 16, 090 (P372945)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 090
ID	P372945
Museum no.	VAT 07573
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 ta-ri-ba-tum	to Tarībatum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma gi-mil-{d}marduk-ma	thus Gimil-Marduk:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,#-ka#	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	sza-ad-da-aq-da a-na# _zu2-lum_	to be šaddaqda for dates
6	sza-mi-im asz-pur-ak-kum-ma	I wrote to you (as follows):
7	a-na s,u2-ha-ri-ia ki-a-am ta-aq-bi	You said thus to my ṣuharu:
8	um-ma at-ta-a-ma	Thus you:
9	ha-ar-pi2-isz u2-ul tu-ub-la-nim	you did not bring me quickly.
10	a-na qi3-ip-tim u2-ul ad-di-im-ma	I did not give to the qiptu-official, and
11	a-na _u4_-mi-im an-ni-im	on this day
reverse
1	u2-ul u2-sza-ab-szi	he will not let her dwell.
2	t,e4-ma-am ga-am-ra-am	I want to give a report.
3	szu-up-ra-am-ma	send me, and
4	szum-[ma x] x szum-ma _i3-gesz_ lu-sza-bi-lam	If ... or oil I shall send.

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