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UET 5, 0051 (P414955)

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

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Designation	UET 5, 0051
ID	P414955
Museum no.	UM 52-30-066
Collection	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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 {d}suen-be-el-i3-li2	to Sîn-bēl-ilīk
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}utu-na-s,ir-ma	Thus Šamaš-nāṣir:
4	{d}suen u3 {d}nin-gal asz-szum-ia	Sîn and Ningal concerning me
5	asz-szum _2(bur3) GAN2 a-sza3 szuku_-ka	Concerning the 2 bur3 field area of your prebend
6	sza a-na er-re-szu-tim	which for the extispicy
7	it-ti-i-ka u2-sze-s,u2-u2	they will bring with you.
8	u3 tup-pa2-ka tu-sze-zi-ba-an-ni	and you have freed me from your tablet.
9	{disz}du-du-u2 _szabra_ ib#-ta#-aq#-ra#-an#-ni#	Dudû, the chief household administrator, has appointed me
12	um-ma szu-u2#-ma# a-[na-ku er-re-esz]	Thus he: "I shall be the shepherd."
13	a-nu-um-[ma ...]	Now, ...
reverse
1'	x x x x x
2'	ap-pu-tum	Apputum,

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