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TCL 17, 007 (P387303)

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

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Designation	TCL 17, 007
ID	P387303
Museum no.	AO 06747
Collection	Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

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] be-li2-ia	to my lord
2	[qi2]-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma s,i-li2-{d}utu-ma	Thus Ṣillī-šamaš:
4	_4(bur3) GAN2 sze-gesz-i3_ i-na _an-za-gar3_ ka-at-tim	a field of 4 bur3 of sesame in the cultivated land
5	i-na sa3-pa-ni-im ga-me-er	in the saŋa-pānum the fuller
6	u3 ma-di-isz da-mi-iq	and very much good
7	szum-ma-an asz-szum me-e la#-a ap-t,u3-ra-am	If because I did not release the water
8	_1(bur'u) GAN2 a-sza3_-am as-sa3-pa-ma-an	10 bur₂ of field I sent.
9	_1(gesz2) 2(u) gur sze_-um sza e-pi-ni sza _iri{ki}_ isz-ku-un-e2-a	100 gur of barley, of the work of the city of Iškun-Ea
10	_4(gesz2) gur_ sza er-re-e-szi	4 00 gur of errešu-flour
11	sza sza-at-tam ib-ba-szi-i	of that year he created
12	a-wi-lu-u2 sza u2-la-am-mi-du-ka	the man who will kill you,
13	_4(gesz2) gur sze_-a-am sza le-qe2-e-ka	4 00 gur of barley, which I took from you
14	it-ba-lu-u2	they carried off.

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