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UET 5, 0023 (P414927)

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

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Designation	UET 5, 0023
ID	P414927
Museum no.	IM 057194
Collection	National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Coordinates	30.9607, 46.1063

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# e2-a-[na-s,i-ir]	to Eanashir
2	qi2-bi2-ma#	speak!
3	um-ma im-gur-{d}suen-ma	thus Imgur-Sîn:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li#-it,#-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	we-ri-a-am du-mu-qa2-am	“I am a young woman, a good child,
6	a-na nig2-gur11-{d}nanna	to Niggur-Nanna
7	su!-un-ni-iq
8	a-nu-um-ma _1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_	Now, 10 shekels of silver
9	tu-sze20-zi-ba-an-ni	you have freed me,
10	ki-ma li-ib-bi-ia!	like my heart
reverse
1	la ma-ra-s,i2-im	not to be forgotten,
2	we-ri-a-am du-mu-qa2-am	“I am a young woman, a good child,
3	i-di-isz-szum	gave to him
4	ki-ma an-ha-a-ku	like Anhāya
5	u2-la ti-de-e	do not know!
6	u3 szum-ma <<...>>	And if
7	a-na dingir-szu-ra-bi	to Ilšu-rabi
8	tu-sa3-ni-iq	you shall remove.
9	e-ki-im-ma	of the land
10	a-na nig2-gur11-{d}nanna	to Niggur-Nanna
11	i#-di-in	gave

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