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Iraq 76, 189-192 (P480080)
Letter, Old Akkadian · c. 2340 BCE–2200 BCE
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| Designation | Iraq 76, 189-192 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480080 |
| Museum no. | NWHCM 2009.174 |
| Collection | Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Akkadian · c. 2340 BCE–2200 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | uncertain |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 | lugal#-mu | my master |
| 2 | u3-na-du11 | said to him: |
| 3 | me-sag2-e | he struck. |
| 4 | na-be2-a | speak! |
| 5 | 1{disz@c}sze3-er-ha-num2 | 1 Šerḫanum |
| 6 | lu2-tukul | Lu-tukul |
| 7 | 1{disz@c}szu-an-tum | 1 Šuantum |
| 8 | lu2-eme | a person |
| 9 | umma{ki}-a# | of Umma |
| 10 | ki-ga2 i3-durunx(|KU.KU|)-ne2-esz2# | they dwell in my place |
| 11 | {disz}i3-a-ki-ki | Iakik, |
| 12 | dumu#? i-bi2-bi2 | son of Ibbi-bi |
| 13 | a-su adab#{ki} | Asu of Adab |
| 14 | ne-te-ni-ta | from Nēteni |
| 15 | kar-da-hi{ki}-sze3 | to Kardaḫi |
| 16 | ba-gen | went. |
| 17 | ge26-e nu-zu | I do not know. |
| 18 | a-ba-da-gen{en6#?} | I went with him. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | x di a-gin7 i3-ku5#-[x] | ... how did he cut? |
| 2 | {gesz}tukul sag3-da LUL#? | The one who strikes with a weapon |
| 3 | iri-ur a#?-x-RU#? | Iriur |
| 4 | ugux(|U.SAG|) ba#?-gaz | slaughtered |
| 5 | lugal-mu | my master |
| 6 | he2#-zu | may he know. |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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