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CT 52, 163 (P481909)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 52, 163 |
|---|---|
| ID | P481909 |
| Museum no. | BM 080931 |
| 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 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1’ | [ki]-ma te-eš-te-ni-im-mu-u₂ | like a teeštenimû |
| 2’ | [iš]-tu ITU.2(diš).KAM ITU.2(diš).KAM KU₃.BABBAR ŠAM₃ ša qa₂-ti ⸢DAM⸣.[GAR₃.MEŠ] | From the second month, the second day, the silver, the price of the hand of the ēšammu-emaḫti |
| 3’ | ⸢uš⸣-ta-ad-da-an | he shall pay back. |
| 4’ | u₃ i-na pa-ni-i-tim | and before |
| 5’ | [aš]-⸢šum⸣ KU₃.BABBAR-ka ṣa-ma-di-im-ma | As for the one who destroys your silver, |
| 6’ | a-na KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-la-ki-im | to Babylon I went. |
| 7’ | aš-pu-ra-ak-kum | I sent to you. |
| 8’ | i-na-an-na ri-ša-tum NA.AŠ.BAR | Now, the rīšatum-stone |
| 9’ | ṭup-pi₂ a-wi-lim a-na DINGIR-šu-ib-ni-šu UGULA DAM.GAR₃ | A tablet of a man to Ilu-ibnīšu, the overseer of the merchants. |
| 10’ | aš-šum KU₃.BABBAR ŠAM₃ ša qa₂-ti-šu | Because the silver is the price of his hand |
| 11’ | le-qe₂-e-em-ma | take, and |
| r | ||
| 12’ | a-na KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-la-ki-⸢im⸣ | to Babylon I shall go up. |
| 13’ | il-qi₂-a-am-ma | took, and |
| 14’ | a-na ZIMBIR(|UD.KIB.NUN|){[ki} it]-⸢ta⸣-al-kam | to Sippar he went up. |
| 15’ | ki-ma ⸢is⸣-sa₃-⸢an⸣-[qa₂]-⸢ak⸣-kum | like a esa’ekum tree |
| 16’ | KU₃.BABBAR ŠAM₃ [ša qa₂]-ti-ka | The silver, the price of your hand |
| 17’ | li-qi₂-[a]-am-ma | may he accept, and |
| 18’ | it-ti ⸢ri⸣-[ša-tum] ⸢NA⸣.AŠ.BAR | with ēri-ešātum-plant (a kind of juniper) |
| 19’ | a-na KA₂.⸢DINGIR.RA⸣{[ki} al-ka-am] | to Babylon come! |
| 20’ | a-na KU₃.BABBAR pa x (...) | for silver ... |
| 21’ | aš-tap-ra-ak-⸢kum⸣ (...) | I have sent to you |
| 22’ | ⸢ga-me-er KU₃.BABBAR⸣ ša qa₂-ti-ka ⸢li-qi₂⸣-a-am | May he take the silver that is in your hand. |
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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