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TLB 04, 001 (P389730)

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

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Designation	TLB 04, 001
ID	P389730
Museum no.	LB 1851
Collection	de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, The Netherlands
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 i-bi-{d}sza-ha-an	to Ibbi-Šahan
2	qi2#-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um#-ma# sa-am-su-i-lu-na-ma	Thus Samsu-iluna:
4	_nita_-am u3 _geme2_-am	a man or a woman
5	_dumu_ i-da-ma-ra-az	son of Idamaraz
6	u3 _dumu_ ar-ra-ap-hi-im{ki}	and the son of Arraphim
7	i-na qa2#-ti {lu2}su-ti-i-_mesz_	from the hands of the Sutians
8	ma#-am-ma-an	nobody
9	[la i]-sza-a-am	he does not have
10	_[dam-gar3]_ sza _dumu_ i-da-ma-ra-az	merchant of the son of Idamaraz
11	u3 _dumu_ ar-ra-ap-hi-im{ki}	and the son of Arraphim
12	i-na qa2-ti {lu2}su-ti-i-_mesz_	from the hands of the Sutians
13	[a-na] _ku3-babbar_-im	for silver
14	[i]-sza-am-mu	he shall ask
reverse
1	i-na _ku3-babbar_-szu	from his silver
2	i-te-el-li	he smote.

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