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TCL 17, 022 (P387318)

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

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Designation	TCL 17, 022
ID	P387318
Museum no.	AO 06325
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 da-da-a	to Dadâ
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma dingir-szu-ib-ni-szu-ma	thus Ilu-šu-ibnīszu:
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	a-wi-lum u2-ul ri-iq-ma	the man will not be negligent, and
7	u2-ul a-li-ka-am	I will not come.
8	a-di isz!-ti i-na-an-na	until now
9	_u4 2(disz)-kam_ a-ka-sza-ad-ka	on the 2nd day I will serve you.
10	{disz}na-ap-szi-ra-am-{d}marduk	Napširam-Marduk
11	tup-pi2 usz-ta-bi-la-ku	I have sent my tablet to you.
reverse
1	_2(asz) sze gur_ i-na _{gesz}ban2 gi_	2 kor of barley, (measured) by the seah of reed
2	{d}tasz-me-tum	Tašmetum
3	a-na si-na-tum i-di-in	he gave to Sinatum
4	la ta-ka-la-szu	do not hold him back!
5	a-di a-la-ka-ma	until I come and
6	sza ru-di-i-e	of the guarantors
7	u2-ra-du-szu	they shall remove him.

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