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VS 16, 196 (P373051)

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

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Designation	VS 16, 196
ID	P373051
Museum no.	VAT 07938
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir)
Coordinates	32.5520, 44.5853

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# mu#-na-wi-rum	to Munawwirum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma li-pi2-it#-esz18-[dar-ma]	Lipit-Ištar speaks thus:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li#-[it,]-ka#	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	a-nu-um-ma tup-pi2#	Herewith, the tablet
6	usz-ta-bi-la-ak-kum#	I have sent to you
reverse
1	tup-pi2 i-na a-ma-ri-im	a tablet in the morning
2	{disz}u-bar-rum a-hi {d}suen-re-me-ni	Ubarrum, son of Sîn-remeni
3	a-na i-bi-{d}nin-szubur	to Ibbi-Ninšubur
4	id-na-asz-szu-ma	he gave him, and
5	asz-szum bi-ti-ia sza ki-ma	Concerning my house, which like
6	sza-la-szi-szu tup-pi2	a second tablet
7	u2-sza-bi-la#-ak#-kum-ma	I sent to you, and
8	t,e4-em bi-ti-ia	News of my house:
9	u2-ul ta-asz-pu-ra-am	you did not send me.
left
1	wa-sza-ba-am szu-szi-ib	who dwells there, settles

Sources & licences

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