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CT 52, 066 (P481814)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 52, 066 |
|---|---|
| ID | P481814 |
| Museum no. | BM 080454 |
| 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 {d}suen-ia-tum | to Sîn-yatum |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {d}suen-i-din-nam-ma | thus Sîn-iddinam: |
| 4 | {d}utu u3 {d}amar-utu da-ri-isz# u4-mi | Šamaš and Marduk forever |
| 5 | li-ba-al-li#-t,u2#-ka# | may they keep you alive! |
| 6 | a-nu-um-ma tup-pi2 | Now, the tablet |
| 7 | a-na dingir-szu-ba-ni usz-ta-bi-<<la>>-lam | to Ilu-šubāni he has sent. |
| 8 | at-ta u3 dingir-szu-ba-ni | You and Ilšu-bani |
| 9 | {disz}na-bi-{d}suen ASZ2-ra-am | Nabi-Sîn is the guarantor. |
| 10 | [x] x ARAD a-na GA x x x | ... servant for milk ... |
| 11 | x-di-nu-szu | his ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | li-qe2-e-ma a-na ib-ni#-{d}amar-utu | take, and to Ibni-Amurrum |
| 2 | i-di-in-szu | gave him, |
| 3 | pa-ni-ka ma-di-isz | your face greatly |
| 4 | du-ni-in-szu | he made it. |
| 5 | a-na sza asz-pu-ra-ak#-ku | to what I wrote you |
| 6 | ni-di a-hi la ta-ra-asz-szi | Do not abandon my brother! |
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
- 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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