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UET 5, 0057 (P414961)

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

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Designation	UET 5, 0057
ID	P414961
Museum no.	UM 52-30-072
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}iszkur-ra-bi	to Iškur-rabi
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma tasz-me-{d}nin-gal-ma	Thus Tašme-Ningal:
4	ki-ma li-bi	like a lion
5	ma-ar-s,u2 at-ta	You are a hero,
6	u2-la ti-de	you do not know.
7	a-na a-wa-tim	to a matter
8	sza e-zi-ba#-ku-um	of Ezibānum
9	la te-gi4#	not to return
10	isz-tu wa-ar-ki-ia	from my childhood
11	s,u2-ha-ar-ta-am	ṣuḫartam
reverse
1	a-na bi-ti ta-am-ka-ri-im	to the house of Tamkarum
2	usz-te-ri-bu	he made enter.
3	pi zu ti u2 x (x) bi la? ka	... mouth(?)
4	a-di-na-ni-ia	for my life
5	gi-mi-la-am	a reed mat
6	da-ri-am e-li-ia	forever over me
7	szu-ku-un	set up.
8	AN ni-mu-ur2	“I want to utter an arazu prayer
9	x x x x ka	[......] you
10	x x x x
11	x x [x] x

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