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TCL 18, 145 (P387441)

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

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Designation	TCL 18, 145
ID	P387441
Museum no.	AO 09089
Collection	Louvre Museum, Paris, France
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 {d}marduk-da-ia-an	to Marduk-dayyān
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma e-tel-pi4-{d}marduk-ma	thus Etel-pî-Marduk:
4	{disz}gur-ru-rum qa2-du _{gesz}ma2_	Gurrum together with the boat
5	a-na _sahar hi-a_ s,e-e-nim	for the soil of the flock
6	it-ta-al-kam	has gone,
7	ki-ma it-ta-al-kam	when he has gone
8	2(disz) s,u2-ha-re-e ku-ut-ti-in	2 ṣuharû-vessels,
9	u3 at-ta i-zi-iz-ma	and you stood, and
10	_sahar hi-a_ li-s,e-nu-nim	the soil may they dig.
11	a-na pi2-ha-at _sahar hi-a_ dam-qu2-tim	for the clearing of the good soil
12	it-ti-ka a-ta-u2	With you I have sinned.
reverse
1	a-na _{gesz}ma2_ la ma-li-tim	to a boat of no value
2	it-ti-ka a-da-ab-bu-ub	I shall speak with you.

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