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CT 52, 055 (P481803)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 52, 055 |
|---|---|
| ID | P481803 |
| Museum no. | BM 081612 |
| 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 ma-ta-ki | to your land |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma ku-ru-um-ma | thus Kurum: |
| 4 | _a-sza3_-am am-kur-ma | a field I entered, and |
| 5 | ti-du-ku tup-pa-ki | [You will learn] your [tablet]. |
| 6 | a-na szum-ma-li-ib-bu-er-s,e-tim | to Šumma-libbi-erṣetim |
| 7 | a-na _lu2 egir_ | to a later man |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | li-li-kam-ma | let him come, and |
| 2 | ma-ma-an la u2-da-ba-ba-ni | nobody shall litigate against me. |
| 3 | u3 sze-a-am e-ri-su-ma | and the barley he brought, and |
| 4 | sze-um u2-ul i-ba-asz-szi | there is no barley. |
| 5 | s,u2-ha-rum ti-du-ku-um-ma | ṣuḫāru means “to kill. |
| 6 | u2-ul il-li-kam | he did not come |
| 7 | um-ma a-hu-szi-na-<ma> | Thus Aḫušina: |
| 8 | _a-sza3_-um a-BI-i | the field ABÎ |
| 9 | tup-pa-ki du-ni-ni-im-ma | Your tablet is good. |
| left | ||
| 1 | a-na _a-sza3_-im la u2-da-ba-bu | to the field shall not raise a claim |
| 2 | _a-sza3_ li-ne-ri-isz | a field may he cultivate |
| 3 | _a-sza3_-am am-ta-kar | the field I seized. |
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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