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Education in the Earliest Schools 061 (P388568)
Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Education in the Earliest Schools 061 |
|---|---|
| ID | P388568 |
| Museum no. | SC 2, 008 |
| Collection | Cotsen Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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 tap-pu-u2-um | to a companion |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {d}suen-ub-lam-ma | thus Sîn-ublum: |
| 4 | sza-hu-um it,-t,a2-bi-ih-ma | the šāḫūm-demon has seized, and |
| 5 | asz-sza-at sza-hi-ti7-im | the wife of the slave-girl |
| 6 | isz-pu-ra-am-ma | wrote to me, and |
| 7 | pe-ma-am il-qu2-ma | a ghost took, and |
| 8 | ma-ri szi-ip-ri-im | the wages of the work |
| 9 | a-du-uk-ma | I killed, and |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | e-te-qi2-ma | has passed, and |
| 2 | al-li-ik-szi-im-ma | I went to her, and |
| 3 | um-ma a-na-ku-ma | thus I: |
| 4 | am-mi-ni a-na pe-mi-im | Why to look at me? |
| 5 | ta-asz-pu-ri-im | you wrote me. |
| 6 | um-ma szi-ma | Thus she: |
| 7 | sza pe-ma-am i-szu#?-u2 | who has a ghost |
| 8 | [e]-li sza-hi-t,i7-im | above Šahiṭum |
| 9 | an#-ni-ta-am | This |
| 10 | sza-al | |
Sources & licences
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