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TCBI 2/2, 57 (P381711)

Letter, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	TCBI 2/2, 57
ID	P381711
Museum no.	BdI C 46
Collection	Banca d'Italia, Rome, Italy
Language	Sumerian
Period	Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates	32.1271, 45.2300

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	ARAD2-mu	my servant.
2	u3-na-a-du11	he said to him
3	3(u) sa mug-lu{sar}	30 bundles muglu-flour
4	2(u) sa szum2-sikil	20 bundles onions
5	nig2-gu7 ensi2-ka	food of the governor
reverse
1	ha-mu-ra-ab-szum2-mu	may he give to you.
2	lu2 ga-nam mu-gur4-gur4?	“I am indeed a man, I am the one who makes (me) grow(?)
seal 1 col 1
1	da-da#	Dada
2	ensi2	governor
3	nibru{ki}	of Nippur,
seal 1 col 2
1	[...]
2	[...]
3	[...]

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