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FM 01, p. 111-112 A 00793 (P472286)

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

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Designation	FM 01, p. 111-112 A 00793
ID	P472286
Museum no.	NMSDeZ — ?
Collection	National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Mari (mod. Tell Hariri)
Coordinates	34.5504, 40.8887

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 be-li2-ia	To my lord
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}iszkur-[sa6]-ga	thus Adad-saga
4	ARAD-ka-a-ma	your servant
5	be-li2 ki-a-am isz-pu-ra-am	My lord wrote me thus:
6	um-ma-mi a-di _lu2-mesz_ eb-bu-tim	my mother and the young men
7	la# a-t,a3-ra-dam	I shall not be negligent.
8	_gesztin_ la iq-qa-at,-t,a2-ap	wine should not be poured out
reverse
1	[i-na-an]-na u4-um _gesztin_ qa-t,a2-pi2-im	Now, the day wine is poured out
2	ik-ta-asz-da-am	he has sworn
3	u3 a-na mu-su2-ki-ma	and to Musukimma
4	i-ta-ar be-li2 _lu2-mesz_ eb-bu-tim	my lord the bright men
5	li-it,-ru-dam-ma	may they bring to me, and
6	_gesztin_ li-iq-t,u3-pu#	wine may they libate.

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