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VS 16, 121 (P372975)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 121
ID	P372975
Museum no.	VAT 08057
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 sza-pi2-ri#-[ni qi2-bi2-ma]	Speak to our emissary!
2	um-ma a-si-rum u3 {d}[esz18-dar-szar-rum-ma]	Thus Asirum and Ishtar-šarrum
3	esz18-dar u3 {d}za-ba4-ba4 asz-szu#-[mi-ni]	Ištar and Zababa because of me
4	da-ri-isz _u4_-mi sza-pi2-ir-ni# [li-ba-al-li-t,u2]	may they live forever.
5	asz-szum sze-e-im sza qa2-ti#-[i]-ni#	Concerning the barley of our hands
6	sza ma-ha-ra-am ta-asz-pu-ra-am	you wrote before me.
7	_1(u) 3(asz) sze gur 3(barig) sze-musz5 4(ban2) gu2-gal_	13 gur of barley, 3 barig of musz grain, 4 ban2 of gugal-grain
8	_5(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 za3-hi-li{sar}_	5 ban2 7 sila3 of zaḫili-flour
9	i-na _{gesz}ban2_ {d}marduk er-su	with the bow of Marduk he set up.
10	i-na {gesz}me-sze-qi2-im ni-im-ta-ha-ar	we received with a scepter.
11	u3 szi-pa12-as-si-ni ni-it-ta-di	and their šipašini we have given.

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