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VS 16, 142 (P372997)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 142
ID	P372997
Museum no.	VAT 08490
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 ra#-bi-a-nu#-um	to Rabi-Anum
2	u3 szi-bu-ut {iri}BU-lum{ki}	and the inhabitants of Bulum
3	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
4	um-ma i-bi-{d}suen u3 _di-ku5-mesz_ larsa{ki}-ma	Thus Ibbi-Sîn and the judges of Larsa:
5	{disz}wa-tar-{d}utu ki-a-am u2-lam-mi-da-an-ni	Watar-šamaš thus gave me
6	um-ma szu-u2-ma	Thus he:
7	isz-tu _mu# 5(disz)-kam#_	from the 5th year
8	_{gesz}kiri6_ a-sza-am-ma	the orchard I planted, and
9	_iri{ki#}_ ib-ta-aq-ru-ni-in-ni	the city which they have destroyed
10	a-wa-ti-szu a-am-ra-a-ma	I shall read his words, and
reverse
1	ki-ma s,i-im-da-tim	like a mountain
2	di-nam szu-hi-za-szu	a lawsuit against him
3	szum-ma e-pi-is-ku-nu-szi-im	if her work
4	szu-a-ti u3 be-el a-wa-ti-szu	that man and the owner of his words
5	a-na s,e-ri-ni	to the steppe
6	t,u2-ur-da-nim	Ṭurdanum

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