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FAOS 02, 162 (P509706)

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

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Designation	FAOS 02, 162
ID	P509706
Museum no.	VAT 12672
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-um	Thus Ibni-šadum
4	{disz}a-hu-szi-na	Aḫušina
5	it#-ti-ka-a-ma	with you
6	li#-li-ik	may he go
7	[u3?] GAN2{+lam}-ma#?	and(?) the field
8	[x]-RI#-ku#-nu-szi-im	... to you
9	eq#!-lum
reverse
1	i-na qa2-ti-ka	in your hand
2	li-ib-szi	may he live.
3	u3 ri-ba-am-i3-li2	and Ribam-ilī,
4	a-na mi-ni-im	what
5	im-ta-na#-ha#-ra-an-ni	he kept me awake.
6	u2-na-ti-szu	his gifts
7	te#-e?-er-szu-<um>	Tēršum
8	x bi-ra ki-ma#	... like
9	sza# li-bi	of the libi
10	a-li-im szu-s,i	the city of Susa
left
1	u3 NI KI am [...]	and ... wild bull
2	u3# du-ru-um# [x x] x du	and Durum ...
3	ki-ma s,e-ri#-ia#	like my sheepfold

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