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CT 52, 069 (P481817)

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

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Designation	CT 52, 069
ID	P481817
Museum no.	BM 080775
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 {d}utu-sag-kal	To Šamaš-sagkal
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma a-wi-il-{d}iszkur-ma#	Thus Awīl-Addu
4	{d}utu u3 {d}amar-utu li-ba#-li#-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive!
5	asz-szum ka-ni-ki-im	because of the seal
6	sza ma-ah-ri-ka u3 ma-har a-ia-a	which before you and before me
7	ap-qi2-da-ak-kum	I have appointed you.
8	um-ma a-na-ku-u2-ma	thus I:
9	i-na _{gi}pisan_ sza# [x x x] x x x	in the basket of ...
10	tup-pi2 i-na a-ma#-[ri-im/ka]	a tablet at your disposal
reverse
1'	x x x x x [...]
2'	ku-un-ka-am-ma	place, and
3'	a-na sza tup-pi2 ub-ba-la-ak-kum	I will bring it to you for the tablet.
4'	it-ti ka-ni-ki-im sza-a-tu	with that seal
5'	u3 me-hi-ir tup-pi2-ia szu-bi-lam	Send me the relevant information of my tablet!

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