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UET 5, 0058 (P414962)

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

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Designation	UET 5, 0058
ID	P414962
Museum no.	UM 52-30-073
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 _ugula kisal-luh_	to the foreman of the courtyard
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ARAD-{d}suen-ma#	Thus Warad-Sîn
4	a-na-ku-u2	I,
5	asz-pu-ra-a-am	I wrote to you
6	i-hu-zu-ni-isz	he conquered
7	a-na bi-ti-szu	to his house
8	u3 _{gesz}kiri6_-szu	and his orchard
9	ma-ma-an	nobody
10	la i-t,e4-he-e	he shall not return.
reverse
1	6(disz) x [...]	6 ...
2	ri-ba-tu-um#	Ribatum
3	sza _e2-gal_	of the palace
4	e-li-szu-u2	above him
5	i-ba-[(asz)]-szi#-i	there is
6	[x] x x [_{gesz}]kiri6_-szu	his orchard
7	[x] x x [x] x x
8	[x] x x x x x
9	a-na bi-it nu-ur2#-ku-bi	to the house of Nur-Kūbi
10	ma-ma-an la i-t,e4-he-e	no one shall approach.
11	i-na ti-er-ti-im	in the sea
12	i-za-az	he shall stand.
13	sza-ar#-ra-am	šarram
14	i-ta-na-pa-al	he keeps looking.

Sources & licences

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