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CT 52, 099 (P481847)

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

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Designation	CT 52, 099
ID	P481847
Museum no.	BM 081052
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] x x [...]	to ... ...
2	x [...]
3	[qi2]-bi2-[ma]	speak!
4	um#-ma isz-me-{d}suen [...-ma]	Thus Išme-Sîn
5	[{d}]utu# u3 {d}amar#-utu# da-ri-isz u4#-[mi li-ba-al-li]-t,u2#-ku#-nu-ti	May Shamash and Marduk keep you alive forever!
6	lu# sza-al-ma-tu-[nu ba-al-t,a-tu-nu]	May they be healthy, may they be alive!
7	szu#-lum-ku-nu ma-har {d}utu lu ka-ia-[ma-an]	May your health be constant before Šamaš!
8	{disz}{d}suen-ia-TA?-ar _ugula mar-tu_	Sîn-iāṭir, foreman of Amurru
9	ki-a-am isz-pu-ra-am um#-ma szu-ma#	Thus he wrote to me:
10	[x] x x x x ka AB BI DA AD	... ... next to the father
11	[...]-am	... is
reverse
1'	me-hi-ir# tup#-pi2-ia szu-bi-la-[nim]	Send me my tablet!

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