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VS 16, 166 (P373021)
Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 16, 166 |
|---|---|
| ID | P373021 |
| Museum no. | VAT 07887 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 i-din-{d}marduk-[ma] | thus Iddin-Marduk: |
| 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 | szu-szi-ka a-na hur-sag-kalam-ma | your hand to the Hursaŋkalama |
| 7 | at,-ru-da-am | I have sent. |
| 8 | 1(disz) _ma2_ qa2-du _gissu_-sza | 1 boat together with its equipment, |
| 9 | i-di-im-ma | he built, and |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | isz-tu kisz{ki} a-na hur-sag-kalam-ma | from Kiš to Hursagkalama |
| 2 | li-ir-du-szi | may he conquer her. |
| 3 | u3 szu-ur-pa-am | and Šurpam |
| 4 | szu-bi-il-ma# | Šubil |
| 5 | i-na an-ni#-[tim] | in this |
| 6 | at-hu-[ut-ka] | I received from you. |
| 7 | lu-mu-u2-[ur] | let me see. |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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