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VS 16, 128 (P372982)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 128
ID	P372982
Museum no.	VAT 07653
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 a-wi-lim sza {d}marduk u2-ba-al-la-t,u2-szu	to the man of Marduk they shall release him
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}suen-gim-la-an-ni-ma	thus Sîn-gimlanni:
4	{d}utu u3 {d}marduk da-ri-isz _u4_-mi	Šamaš and Marduk forever
5	li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive.
6	i-na babila2{ki} ni-in-na-mi-ir-ma	in Babylon we smote, and
7	ki-a-am aq-bi-kum	I said to you thus:
8	um-ma a-na-ku-ma	thus I:
9	e-le-nu {disz}dingir-szu-na-s,i-ir	above Ilu-šunaṣir
10	sza i-il-la-ka-kum bu-uz-zu-uh	that he will come to you, buzzuḫ
11	s,u2-ha-rum sza ma-ah-ri-ka	the ṣūḫāru of your presence
12	_dah_ {disz}dingir-szu-na-s,i-ir szu-u2	adjoining Ilu-šunaṣir,
13	i-na-an-na dingir-szu-na-s,i-ir	Now, Ilu-šunaṣir
14	it-ta-al-ka-kum	has come to you
reverse
1	[a]-sza#-ri-isz it-ti-szu du-bu-ub#?-ma	As for me, speak with him and
2	ar#-hi-isz t,u2-ur-da-asz-szu	quickly his ṭurdašu

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