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AbB 12, 041 (P510565)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AbB 12, 041 |
|---|---|
| ID | P510565 |
| Museum no. | BM 097449 |
| 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)
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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}nanna-in-du8 | to Nanna-indu |
| 2 | qi2-bi2#-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um#-[ma] ib#-ba-tum a-hu-ka-ma# | Thus Ibbatum, your brother: |
| 4 | {d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-al-[li]-t,u2#-ka | May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive! |
| 5 | asz-szum {disz}{d}da-gan-zi-im#-[ra-ti] | Concerning Dagan-zimrati |
| 6 | sza# asz-pu-ra#-[ak-kum] | which I wrote to you |
| 7 | [a]-nu-um-ma zi-[...] | Now, ... |
| 8 | [(x)] x el da [...] | ... above ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-na e-ri-ib#-sin# | to Erībsin |
| 2 | usz#-ta-bi-lam# | he sent to me. |
| 3 | [a-wi]-lam# {disz}{d}da-gan-zi-im#-[ra-ti] | A man, Dagan-zimrati |
| 4 | [a-na?] _e2_ {d}utu szu-ri-ba-am# | to the temple of Šamaš, my lord |
| 5 | szi#-bu-su li-iq-bi-ma | May his witnesses speak, and |
| 6 | hi-si ku-nu-ka-tim | a cloth of knuckles, |
| 7 | sza a-wi-li-i | of a man |
| 8 | li-qe2 | may he take. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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