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FM 06, 024 (P479745)

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

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Designation	FM 06, 024
ID	P479745
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'	[asz]-szum# _sila4 hi-a_ sza be#-[li2 isz-pu-ra-am]	Concerning the lambs about which my lord wrote to me
2'	[a]-ia-nu-um _sila4 hi-a_ ma-ah#-[ri-ia]	“Why are the sheep before me so small?
3'	[i]-na sza-asz-sza-ar _i7_-[ma]	in the middle of the river
4'	i-ka-la _sila4 hi-a_ ma-[la]	he will weigh out the bricks as much as
5'	i-ba-asz-szu-ma a-na-ku a-na be-li2-[ia]	there is, and I to my lord
6'	a-ka-al-[la]	Akalla
7'	be-el ha-al-s,i2-im sza [...]	the lord of the cult centers who
8'	wa-asz-bu 5(disz) li-mi _udu hi-[a_ i-szu]	he has 5 thousand sheep.
9'	1(disz) me-_am3 sila4 hi-a_ a-na be-li2#-[ia]	100 sheep and goats for my lord
10'	[am]-mi-nim la# [i-na-di-in]	why did he not give it?

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