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CT 52, 037 (P481786)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 52, 037 |
|---|---|
| ID | P481786 |
| Museum no. | BM 080447 |
| 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)
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 | a-na li-pi2-it-{d}iszkur | to Lipit-Addu |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma el-me-szum-ma | Elmešum speaks thus: |
| 4 | szi-ta-at _ku3-babbar szam3_ sza qa2-ti-ka | the price of the silver that is in your hand |
| 5 | ka-ni-ik _6(gesz2) 3(disz) gu4 mu 3(asz)_ | sealed documents: 63 oxen, 3 years (old) |
| 6 | sza dingir-ki-nam-i-de | of Dingir-kīnam-ide, |
| 7 | u3 _5(disz) gu4 mu 3(asz)_ | and 5 oxen of 3 years |
| 8 | sza {d}suen-ib-ni dumu iti-na-wi-ir | belonging to Sîn-ibni son of Ina-wir |
| 9 | sza a-na _szam3 ku3-babbar_ in-na-ad-nu-ni-ik-kum-ma | that for the price of silver he gave to you, and |
| 10 | a-na na-s,a-ri-im tu-te-er-ru-szu-nu-szi-im | you will return them to the guard. |
| 11 | li#-qi2-a-am-ma | may he give me, and |
| 12 | [a-na] babila2#{ki} al-kam | to Babylon come! |
| 13 | [la tu]-la#-ap#-pa-tam | do not sneer |
| 14 | [ar-hi]-isz | quickly |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [si-in]-qa2#-am | sinqam |
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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