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CT 52, 025 (P481774)

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

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Designation	CT 52, 025
ID	P481774
Museum no.	BM 081546
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 be-el-ti-ia {munus}e-ri-isz#-ti-{d}utu#	To my lady, Erišti-šamaše
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma nu-ur2-{d}iszkur ARAD-ki-ma	Thus Nūr-Adad, your servant:
4	ul-la-nu-ia	after me
5	sza {d}utu i-pa-la-hu	that Šamaš will fear
6	u3 _ku3-babbar_ u2-sze-bi-la-ki	and silver I sent to you.
7	u2-ul i-ba-asz-szi-i	there is none.
8	s,u2#-ha#-ar-ta-ki	your ṣuḫartā
reverse
1	la-a ta-tu-ri-ma	you did not return, and
2	la ta-sza-ap-pa-ri	do not send!
3	{disz}ia-lu-rum il#-li-kam-ma	Iarum came and
4	_4(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar#_ ad-di-isz-szu	I gave him 4 shekels of silver.
5	a-nu-um#-ma _1(disz) tug2_	Herewith, 1 garment
6	u3 _1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_	and 1 shekel of silver
7	usz-te-bi-la#-ki#	I sent to you.
8	gi-im-ri	reed bundle
9	sza sza-at-ti an-ni-tim	of this year
10	_1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_	10 shekels of silver

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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