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UET 5, 0030 (P414934)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0030 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414934 |
| Museum no. | IM 057201 |
| 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# a-at-ta-[a] | to Attâ |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma na-bi-{d}en-lil2 | Thus Nabi-Enlil: |
| 4 | u3 {d}utu-ra-bi | and Utu-rabi |
| 5 | {d}suen li-ba-al-li-it,-ka | May Suen keep you alive! |
| 6 | asz-szum _a-sza3_-lim sza i-di na-ri-im | Concerning the field of the threshing floor |
| 7 | sze-a-am a-na ma-asz-ka-ni-im | barley for the rations |
| 8 | usz-te-lu-u2 | he made rise. |
| 9 | um-ma szu-nu-u2-ma | thus they: |
| 10 | pa-ni _2(bur3) GAN2 a-sza3_-lim | the face of 2 bur3 field, field-lim; |
| 11 | sza i-na i-di _pa5_ ku-sza-ri | who at the threshing floor of a sledge |
| 12 | ni-ma-ak-ku-is-ku-nu-ti | we shall kill you. |
| 13 | u3 _sze_ i-ta-ab-<lu>-u2 | and the barley he shall weigh out |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-na larsa{ki}-ma | to Larsa |
| 2 | a-na ip-qu2-{d}li6-si4-na | to Ipqu-Lisina |
| 3 | szu-pu-ur-ma | send, and |
| 4 | {disz}lu2-{d}nin-urta | Lu-Ninurta |
| 5 | li-la-am-mi-id-ma | may he measure out, and |
| 6 | _aga-us2_ li-hu-za-am-ma | a soldier may he pluck up, and |
| 7 | li-li-kam-ma | let him come, and |
| 8 | _a-sza3_-lam i-na qa2-ti-ni | a field in our hands |
| 9 | la u2-szi-s,u2-u2 | they did not bring in, |
| 10 | a-na sza-at-ti-ni-i | in perpetuity. |
| 11 | i ni-im-ta-ha-is, | we shall cut off |
| 12 | _a-sza3_-lam i nu-szi-s,i2-ma | the field we shall go out, and |
| 13 | mi-ki-is-su-u2 <<u2>> | <(what has he done?)> wrong? |
| 14 | a2-su2 li-pu-ul | let him do his work. |
| 15 | mi-im-ma sza ta-qa2-bu | all that you say |
| 16 | <<i ni-pu-usz>> | we did |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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