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AbB 14, 213 (P491917)

Letter, Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE

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Designation	AbB 14, 213
ID	P491917
Museum no.	AO 03236
Collection	Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Language	Akkadian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Letter

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 lu2-{d}ba-ba6	to Lu-Baba
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma a-hu-um-ma	Thus Aḫum:
4	am-szi-i-ma	I asked, and
5	u2-la aq-bi#-[kum]	I did not tell you.
6	hu-mu-ut,	he shall recover.
7	i-na t,e4-he-e-ka	At your rejoicing
8	pi-qi2-tam2#	a gift
9	szu-ud-di-na#-szu-nu-ti#	I gave to them.
10	pi-iq#-da#-ma	to be taken away, and
reverse
1	su2-ni-iq-szu-nu-ti-ma	remove them, and
2	isz-ka-ra-ti-szu-nu	their rites
3	e-ri-isz-su2-nu-ti-ma	Eriš-sunūti
4	isz-tu ne2-ba-ha-tim	from the nebaḫātum
5	qa2-at-na-tim	the qatnātu
6	re-esz15-tam2	the first
7	u3 ka-ab-ra-tim	and the lands
8	at-ta u3 li-pi2-it-esz18-dar	You and Lipit-Ištar
9	su2-ni-qa2-a-ma	are very high, and
10	i-na _{gi}pisan_	with a basket
11	ku-un-ka-ni-im-ma	sealed documents, and
12	szu-bi-la-ni-im	send to me!

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