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VS 16, 164 (P373019)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 16, 164 |
|---|---|
| ID | P373019 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00831 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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' | [x] x 5(disz) _u4_-mi i-[x x x x (x) (x)] | ... 5 days ... |
| 2' | i-pa-ar#-[ra-as] | he shall replace |
| 3' | be-li2 a-na ar-ka-ti# pa#-[ra-si-im u3] | My lord, to the rear and the rear |
| 4' | t,e4-mi-im sza-pa-ri-im# ni#-di# a-hi-im la# [i-ra-asz-szi] | News of the šaparûm-priest: he will not be able to raise a claim against another. |
| 5' | u3 asz-szum sze-e sza i-na ma-DI#-[x x (x)]-szu#-nu la u2-x [x (x)] | And concerning the barley that in ... they did not ... |
| 6' | sza be-li2 isz-pu#-[ra-an-ni-a-szi-im] | which my lord wrote to me |
| 7' | ki-ma ib-ni-{d}marduk ARAD2 be-li2-ia# [x x (x)] | Like Ibni-Marduk, my servant, |
| 8' | re-esz sze-e szu-a-ti ni-isz-x [x (x)] | We ... the beginning of that barley ... |
| 9' | [...] | |
| 10' | [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | a-wi-lum x [...] | A man |
| 2' | sze-um szu-u2 [...] | That barley |
| 3' | _4(asz) sze gur_ szu-a-ti x [...] | 4 kor of that barley ... |
| 4' | asz-ta-ka-[an (x)] | I have placed ... |
| 5' | asz-szum da-ba-ab {d}na-bi-um-na-s,i#-[ir (x)] | Concerning the speech of Nabium-nāṣir |
| 6' | [x x (x)] x a-na szar-ri ni-x [x x (x)] | ... to the king ... |
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