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VS 16, 141 (P372995)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 141
ID	P372995
Museum no.	VAT 07746
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 _szagina_ sza {d}utu	to the general of Šamaš
2	u2-ba-al-la-t,u3-szu	shall redeem him.
3	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
4	um-ma i-din-esz18-dar _ugula dam-gar3_-ma	Thus Iddin-Ištar, foreman of merchants:
5	{d}suen u3 {d}utu da-ri-isz _u4_-mi	Suen and Šamaš forever.
6	li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive.
7	a-nu-um-ma {disz}i-bi-{d}e2-a	Now, Ibbi-Ea
8	qa-su2 x x x [x x (x) (x)]	Hand of ...
9	sza _1/2(disz) ma#-na# [ku3-babbar_]	of 1/2 mina of silver
10	[_gi] hi-a_ [li-sza-ma-am-ma]	may a good reed be planted there, and
reverse
1	{gesz}apin li-mu-[ra-am]	a plow may he see
2	a-na-ku _a2-bi {gesz}apin#_	I, the arm of the plow
3	sze-a-am a-na-ad-di-<in>	I will give the barley
4	_gi hi-a_ s,e-e-nim-ma	reeds of the fields
5	li-ib-lam	may he bring.
6	la ik-ka-al-la-a-am	he shall not hold back.
7	u3 {disz}da-da-a s,u2-ha-ri	and Dadâ, the ṣuharu
8	la ik-ka-al-la-a-am	he shall not hold back.

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