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AbB 13, 157 (P413570)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 157
ID	P413570
Museum no.	BM 103722
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
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 ...]-ia	to my ...
2	[qi2]-bi2#-ma	speak!
3	[um-ma] ib-ni-{d}suen-ma	thus Ibni-Sîn
4	[{d}utu] u3 {d}marduk asz-szu-mi-ia	As for Šamaš and Marduk, concerning me
5	[li]-ba#-al-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive!
6	[lu] ba#-al-t,a!(ID)-a-ta	May you be well!
7	[lu] sza#-al-ma-ta	May you be well!
8	[lu] da#-ri-a-ta	May you be everlasting!
9	[_dingir_ na]-s,i#-ir-ka	The god who guards you,
10	[s,i-bu]-tam	ṣibtam
11	[a-a ir]-szi	may he not arise.
12	[a-na szu-ul]-mi#-ka	for your well-being
13	[asz-pu]-ra#-am	I wrote to you
14	[szu-lu-um-ka szu]-up#-ra-am	Send a message to me!
15	[...] x x
reverse
1'	[x x x (x)] BI?-ti x [(x) (x)]	... that ...
2'	[li]-qe2#-e-ma#	take, and
3'	[x] _sze#_-a-am u3 _sze-gesz-i3_ [(x) (x)]	... barley and sesame ...
4'	[sza]-ma-am-ma	the heavens
5'	szu#-bi-lam	send me!

Sources & licences

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