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AbB 13, 169 (P413679)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 169
ID	P413679
Museum no.	BM 103834
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'	li#-[ba-al-li-t,u2-ku-nu-ti]	may they keep you alive!
2'	a-na ka#-[ti u3 ra-i-mi]-ki#	to you and your love
3'	be-el-ki [{d}x (x)] a-na na-s,a-ri-ku#-[nu a-a i-gu]	May your lord, the god , not be negligent towards your guard.
4'	ki-ma sza#-[mu]-u2 u3 er-s,e-tum da-ru-u2	like heaven and earth, eternal.
5'	at-ti [u3] ra#-im-ki lu-u2 da-ri-a-tu-nu	May you and your love be eternal!
6'	[x x] _ku3#-babbar_ a-wi-lum i-ri-sza-an-ni-ma	... silver the man shall pay to me, and
7'	[x x x x x]-ti#-ia x x-ni-ma	...... me and
8'	[...] x-il-szum	... ... to him
9'	[...] na# x x x-ni	... ...
reverse
1	[...] x u2-ta-ra-ki	... he returned to you.
2	[... qa2]-ba#-am isz-ku-nam	... he spoke to me.
3	[...] x sza-mu-uh-ma ad-di-szu	... he was frightened and I gave him.
4	[...] x x x x-ma	... and

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