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CT 52, 011 (P481760)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CT 52, 011
ID	P481760
Museum no.	BM 082190
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Coordinates	33.0605, 44.2552

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 geme2-{d}utu _dumu-munus_ ma-szum	to Geme-šamaš daughter of Mašarum
2	qi2-bi2-ma#	speak!
3	um-ma be-el-szu-nu-ma	thus their lord:
4	asz-szum _tug2_ sza ta-asz-pu-ri	Concerning the garment about which you wrote me
5	_tug2_ u2-ul gi-ru-ma	the garment was not returned, and
6	u2-ul u3-sza-bi-la-ki	I did not send to you.
reverse
1	a-nu-um-ma _1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_	Now, 1 shekel of silver
2	usz-te-bi-la-ki	I sent to you.
3	u3 _geme2-ki_ t,u2-ur-di-ma	and your female slaves, and
4	a-na e2-gal-la-tim{ki}	to Egallatim
5	li-ti-iq	may he pass.
6	{disz}{d}esz18-dar-s,il2-li2	Ištar-ṣilli
7	t,u2-ur-di-ma	Ṭurdi, and
8	_4(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_	4 shekels of silver
9	li-il-qi2-a	may he take
10	u3 a-nu-um-<ma> a-wa-tam	And now a word
11	i-na tup-pi2 a-na a-bi x	on a tablet to the father

Sources & licences

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number

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