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AbB 12, 058 (P510582)
Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AbB 12, 058 |
|---|---|
| ID | P510582 |
| Museum no. | BM 097596 |
| 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}suen-e-ri-ba-am | to Sîn-erībam |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma a-wi-il-dingir-ma | Thus Awīl-ilum: |
| 4 | {d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka | May Šamaš keep you alive! |
| 5 | sza-al-ma-a-ku | I am well; |
| 6 | i-na a-szu-ur{ki} a-na-ku | in Assur I |
| 7 | s,i-bu-ti e-te-pu-usz2 | (Sum) He built the ṣibūtu-house (Akk) I built the high temple |
| 8 | szi#-ma-am szi-na sza-la-sza-at | “Who are those two to be equal? |
| 9 | e-i-lam-ma ar#-[hi-isz] | he went up and quickly |
| 10 | at#-ta-la-kam# | I went. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _{gesz}ma2_ sza _{na4}ur5 hi-a_ | a boat of bur5-stones |
| 2 | {disz}a-hu-ka ir-ka-ba-am | Aḫūka will enter. |
| 3 | i-na li-ib-bi-im | in the heart |
| 4 | ba-am-tum i-ia-tu | “Bammu of Iyatu’s |
| 5 | asz-pu-ra-kum lu-u2 a-wi-lum at-ta | I wrote to you, whether you are a man. |
| 6 | _{na4}ur5 hi-a_ szu-nu-ti | these pomegranates |
| 7 | a-na ri-ik-si-im | for a pledge |
| 8 | te-ra-szu-nu-ti-ma | you have entered them, and |
| 9 | ba#-ma-at ri-ik-si-im | the one who establishes rites |
| 10 | ma#-ha-as, | |
| 11 | s,i2-bi-it t,e4-mi-im | the one who hears the report |
| left col 1 | ||
| 1 | [a]-na pa-ni-ia | to my presence |
| 2 | lu-u2 ti-szu | or his life |
| left col 2 | ||
| 1 | ar-hi-isz | quickly |
| 2 | at-ta-la-kam# | I went. |
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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