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AbB 12, 032 (P510557)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AbB 12, 032 |
|---|---|
| ID | P510557 |
| Museum no. | BM 097240 |
| 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 Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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}nanna-in-du8 | to Nanna-indu |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {d}iszkur#-ma-gir | Thus Adad-magir |
| 4 | [a-hu?-ka]-a-ma | your brother(?) |
| 5 | [{d}]utu# u3 {d}marduk da-ri-isz | Shamash and Marduk forever |
| 6 | _u4_-mi li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka# | May my days be long for you |
| 7 | _sze-gesz-i3_ a-sza-am-ma | sesame I have, and |
| 8 | a-na _sag-geme2_ ru-ku-sa-ku | to a slave woman I am bound. |
| 9 | _1/3(disz) ma-na 1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar na4_ {d}utu | 1/3 mina 1 shekel of silver, stone of Šamaš |
| 10 | 2(disz) gin2 _ku3-babbar_ u2-lu 3(disz) gin2 _ku3-babbar_ | 2 shekels of silver, or 3 shekel(s) of silver |
| 11 | a-na mu-uh-hi | against |
| 12 | ri-ik#-si2-im | a ritual arrangement |
| 13 | {disz}{d}suen-i-ta-szu | Sîn-itāšu, |
| 14 | li-re-di | may he lead. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | {disz}{d}suen-i-din#-nam# | Sîn-iddinam |
| 2 | u3 {d}suen-i-ta-szu | and Sîn-ittāšu |
| 3 | it-ti-ka | with you |
| 4 | li-il5-li-ku-ma | they must go, and |
| 5 | _sag-geme2_ szu-ba-ri-ta | the slave-girl of Šubarita |
| 6 | sza du-un-nu-na-at | of Dunnunat |
| 7 | u2 s,e2-eh-re-et | and the flocks |
| 8 | sza u2-ba-lu | that he will redeem, |
| 9 | sza-ma-am | the heavens |
| 10 | u2-la-szu-ma | he shall remove, and |
| 11 | _sze-gesz-i3_ sza a-sza-mu | sesame of Ašamu |
| 12 | [u2]-ul# i-na-ad-di-nu-ni | they will not give me. |
| 13 | gi#-im-la-an-ni | a reed fence |
| left | ||
| 1 | pi2#-ia la i-sa3#-ra#-ar | he will not release my mouth |
| 2 | sza# u2-zu-be2-e# i-szu-u2 | who has a companion |
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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