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UET 5, 0062 (P414966)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0062 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414966 |
| Museum no. | UM 52-30-077 |
| 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 ...] | to ... |
| 2 | qi2-[bi2-ma] | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma [...]-bu#-um#-ma# | Thus ...-bum: |
| 4 | asz-szum _lu2 [(x)] x ri-mesz_ | Concerning the ... men |
| 5 | sza {d}nin-e2-nim-ma | of Ninenima |
| 6 | sza ta#-asz-ta-na-ap-pa-ra-am | that you constantly send to me |
| 7 | i-na# iri#{ki} nu-ur2-{d}iszkur | in the city Nūr-Adad |
| 8 | {disz}a-zi-i-a | Aziya |
| 9 | u3 e-la-a | and Ela |
| 10 | a-di# x x tum#? ig-ga-am-ru usz-bu | as long as he lives he will live. |
| 11 | am-mi#-[ni] a-na a-bi a-mu-ur-ri-im | Why to my father, the one who saw me |
| 12 | la iq-bu-u2-ma | did not say, and |
| 13 | i-nu-ma at-ta ta-al-li-kam | When you came, |
| 14 | am-mi-ni a-na szar-ri-im | Why to the king |
| 15 | u3 a-bi a-mu-ur-ri-im la# ta#-aq-bi | And your father, when I saw it, did not say: |
| 16 | _erin2 hi-a_ i-na _dub_ la-bi-ri#-im# | labor-troops, according to the old tablet |
| 17 | a-na _erin2_ ba-ah-ri-im sza-at,-ru# | written down to the envoys. |
| 18 | esz-szi-isz-ma a-na _erin2_ ba-ah-ru-um | anew to the Baḫrû troops |
| 19 | isz-t,u3-ru-szu-nu-ti | he wrote them. |
| 20 | sza i-na _erin2_ ba-ah-ru-um sza-at,-ru | which were written in the “Baḫrû-workers’. |
| 21 | a-na#-[ku-(u2)] ba-lum szar-ri-im | I, without the kingship |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 a-bi a-mu-ur-ri-im | and my father I saw |
| 2 | ma-la na-sa3-hi-im ma-s,i-a-ku-ma | as much as I want to bring, and |
| 3 | am-mi-ni a-na szar-ri-im | Why to the king |
| 4 | u3 a-bi a-mu-ur-ri-im | and my father I saw |
| 5 | la ta-sza-ap-pa-ra-am-ma | do not send me, and |
| 6 | a-na ia-a-tim u3 la ia-a-tim | to me and not me |
| 7 | ta-asz-ta-<<ap>>-na-ap-pa-ra-am-ma | you constantly send to me, and |
| 8 | at-wa-a-am e-li s,e2-ri-ia | (Sum) I am the one who goes up to my foot (Akk) I go up to [my foot] |
| 9 | tu-us,-s,a-ab | you will bury. |
| 10 | a-na e-pe-szi-im an-ni-im | to do this |
| 11 | u2-ul i-t,a-ap-<pa>-lu-ka | they will not look after you. |
| 12 | a-na _zabar-dab_ szu-up-ra-am-ma | send to the zabardab, and |
| 13 | _zabar-dab_ li-iq-bi | May a bronze snare say: |
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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