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FM 05, 001 (p. 065) (P479721)

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

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Designation	FM 05, 001 (p. 065)
ID	P479721
Museum no.	NMSD — ?
Collection	National Museum of Syria, Damascus, 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 ia-ah-du-li-im	to Yaḫdulum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ia-ah-mi-id-li-im	Yahmed-Līm,
4	a-hu-ka-a-ma	your brother
5	1(disz) _{gesz}taskarin_ sza 5(disz) am-ma-tim	1 tamarisk of 5 leaves,
6	u2-ru-uk-szu	to Urukšu
7	[1(disz)] am-ma-at	1 female lamb
8	[ku]-bu#-ur-szu	his loins
9	[la] ta#-ka-al-la-am	do not hold back!
10	[t,u2]-ur#-da-am	ṭurdam
11	[szu-bi]-la#-am	send me!
reverse
1	[...]
2	[...]-ma	... and
3	[...]-szu	... his
4	[...]
5	[... lu]-sza-re-e-em	... let me praise.
6	mi-im-ma sza ha-asz-ha-ta!	everything that has been seized
7	szu-up-ra-am-ma	send me, and
8	lu-sza-bi-la-kum	let me send to you.

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