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VS 16, 185 (P373040)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Pī-Kasî · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	VS 16, 185
ID	P373040
Museum no.	VAT 07803
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Pī-Kasî (mod. Tell Abu Antiq)
Coordinates	32.1311, 44.6393

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 s,il2-li2-{d}dam-ki-na	to Ṣillī-damkina
2	u3 i-bi-{d}nin-szubur	and Ibbi-Ninšubur
3	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
4	um-ma lu-mur-[sza]-{d}marduk	thus Lūmur-ša-Marduk:
5	{d}utu li-ba-al-li#-t,u3-ku-nu-ti	May Šamaš keep you alive!
6	tup-pi2 usz-ta-bi-la#-ak#-[ku-nu]-szi#-im	I have sent you a tablet.
7	ki-ma tup-pi2 ta-ma-ra	You will see it like a tablet.
8	a-wi-le-e sza a-na bad3-a-pil-{d}suen{ki}	the man who to Walla-pil-Sîn
9	i-la-ku-u2	they will go.
reverse
1	szu-li-a-nim	Šuliānum
2	u3 isz-tu _ugula nam-1(u)_	and from the foreman of the governorship
3	a-<wi>-le-e la-bi-ru-tim	Old men
4	le-qe2-nim-<<im>>-ma	take, and
5	a-la-kam ep-sza-nim	“I will go, I will do it.
6	ki-ma tup-pi2 ta-ma-ra#	You will see it like a tablet.
7	la tu-ha-ra#-nim	do not delay!

Sources & licences

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number

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