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FAOS 02, 157 (P509701)

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

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Designation	FAOS 02, 157
ID	P509701
Museum no.	VAT 12715
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Kisurra (mod. Abu Hatab)
Coordinates	31.8383, 45.4810

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-sipa	To Šamaš-sipa
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma ib-ni-sza-du#-ma#	Thus Ibni-šadu:
4	i-na _e2_ {d}nin-urta	in the temple of Ninurta
5	a-na _lukur#_ {d}nin-urta	to the nadītu of Ninurta
6	sze-a-am i-di-in	he gave barley.
7	ki-ma qa2-ti-szi-na	like their hands
8	u3 1(u) _sila4_ szu-ri-a-am#	and 10 qû of chickpeas
9	it-ti wa-ra-a-a	with Waraya
10	sze-am a-na an-da-ku-li#	barley for andakūli
11	u3 na-am-ri-ti-im	and the land
reverse
1	li-i-qe2	may he take.
2	ma-nu-um#	Manum
3	szu-[u2]	he
4	sza a-na qa2#-bi#-ka	that to your command
5	sze-am i-ka-lu-kum	barley they will hold for you
6	ia-szi-im	for me
7	szu-up-ra-am-<ma>	send me!
8	u3 a-ge-ri t,up#-pa2-[am]	and a copy of the tablet
9	szu-bi-lam	send me!

Sources & licences

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