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UET 5, 0076 (P414980)

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

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Designation	UET 5, 0076
ID	P414980
Museum no.	BM 131231
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
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-na-{d}suen-u2-szu-ur	to Ana-Sîn-ušur
2	[{disz}]a-bu-ni	Abuni
3	[{disz}]im-li-kum	Imlikum
4	[{disz}]sza-gi-isz-a-bu-szu	Šagish-abūšu
5	{disz}i3-li2-i-din-nam	Ilī-iddinam,
6	u3 a-at-ta-a	and Attâ
7	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
8	um-ma {d}nanna-ma-an-szum2	thus Nanna-manšum:
9	um-ma ur-ri-ki	Thus (says) Urriku:
10	um-ma {d}i-szum-a-bi-ma	thus Išum-abī:
11	a-sza-ar! ta-asz-pu-ra-ne2-szi	I ask you, you have sent us.
reverse
1	{disz}nu-ga-gu-um#	Nugagum
2	a-an-na-am i-ta-ap-la-<ne2>-ti	“Alas, they have sinned.‭
3	a-li-ku-um	he went.
4	li-el-li-kam-ma	may he go, and
5	u4-mu-um la i-ta-s,u2-ma	If he does not come out and
6	i ni-ta-la-ak	we shall go.
7	qi3-isz-ti-ku-nu	your gift
8	re-isz-ku-nu-u2 u2-ka-al	he will hold your back.
9	e-le-pu-u2	they shall remove.
10	u3# _1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_	and 10 shekels of silver
11	[x] x-al	...;

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