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VS 16, 109 (P372963)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 109
ID	P372963
Museum no.	VAT 07800
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,i-ir-ma	Thus Šamaš-nāṣir:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	tup-pa-ka sza tu-sza-bi-lam	Your tablet that you sent me,
6	isz-me-e-ma ah-du-u2	heard, and Ahdû
7	a-nu-um-ma asz2-tap-ra-ak-ku-um	Herewith I am writing to you:
8	{disz}sza-bu-lu-um	Šabulum
9	u3 1(disz) _lu2 nu-{gesz}kiri6_ sza a-na szi-ri-ka	and 1 man of the orchardist who to you
10	ma-aq-tu
11	li-il-li-ku-ma	they must go, and
reverse
1	sza s,i-bu-tim szu-a-ti	of that ṣibtum
2	le-qe2-e-em	take (it).
3	e-pu-usz	I built.
4	u3 a-wi-il-{d}na#-bi#-um# _aga#-us2#_	and Awīl-Nabium, soldier
5	it-ti-ka lu-usz#-pu#-[ur]	Let me write with you.
6	a-ka-lam isz-te-en sza ta#-ka-lu	You will eat together what you eat.
7	ba-lu-szu la ta-ka-al	do not take away his life!

Sources & licences

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