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AbB 12, 047 (P510571)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AbB 12, 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P510571 |
| Museum no. | BM 097116 |
| 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}suen-i-din-nam-ma | thus Sîn-iddinam: |
| 4 | {d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka | May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive! |
| 5 | a-wi-lu-u2 _lu2_ ma-an-ki-sum2{ki} | Awilû, man of Mankisum |
| 6 | sze-a-am sza il-qu2-nim | the barley that they took |
| 7 | a-na s,i-bu-tim isz-ta-ak-nu-u2-ma | they placed as a pledge, and |
| 8 | sze-a-am ha-asz-hu-u2 | barley, roasted, |
| 9 | _1(u) sze gur_ i-di-isz-szu-nu-szi-im-ma | 10 gur of barley he gave to them, and |
| 10 | {disz}be-el-szu-nu ra-bi-a-nu-um | Belšunum, the chief |
| 11 | u3 szi-bu-ut# _iri#{ki#}_ | and the inhabitants of the city |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ka-ni-kam li-zi-bu#-nim# | May they stand in the sealed document. |
| 2 | szum-ma szu-nu-ti | if they |
| 3 | tu-sa3-al-li-im-szu-nu-ti | you have filled them. |
| 4 | a-na-ku it-ti-szu-nu | I with them |
| 5 | ka-ni-kam lu-zi-ba-kum | Let me stand by you. |
| 6 | ma-ti-ma a-na s,i-bu-tim | at any time in the future |
| 7 | u2-ul asz-pu-ra-kum | I did not send to you. |
| 8 | u3 szum-ma | and if |
| 9 | it-ti ib-ri-ka | with your brother |
| 10 | ta-ma-ra-am | you will see. |
| 11 | a-na sza asz-pu-ra-kum | to what I wrote you |
| 12 | la tu-usz-ta-ha | do not turn back! |
| 13 | i-na an-ni-tim at-hu-<ut>-ka# | In this matter, I have sought you out. |
| 14 | lu-mu-ur | let me see. |
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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