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AbB 12, 079 (P510603)

Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	AbB 12, 079
ID	P510603
Museum no.	BM 097174
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

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 ka-lu#-mi-ia	to all of my family
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma e-ri#-[ib]-esz18#-dar#-[ma]	thus Erīb-Ishtar:
4	{d}utu# u3 [{d}marduk da-ri-isz _u4_-mi]	Šamaš and Marduk forever
5	[li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka]	may they keep you alive!
6	[a-na szu-ul-mi-ka asz-pu-ra-am]	I wrote to you for your well-being.
7	szu#-lum-ka [ma-har {d}utu lu da-ri]	May your well-being be everlasting before Šamaš
8	asz-szum t,e4-mi-ia li-ib-bi mar-s,a#-am#	Concerning my report, the heart is sick.
9	sza ah-hi-ia a-na# a-bi-ia	of my brothers to my father
10	asz-pu-ra#-am	I wrote to you
11	i-zi-is#-su2#?-nu#?-u2?-szi#?-[im]	they shall remove her(?)
12	tup#-pi2 x [...]	A tablet
reverse
1	asz-szu-mi-ia a-na a-bi-ia qi2-bi2#-[ma]	Speak to my father about my case:
2	la tu-usz-ta-ha-a-am	do not abandon me!

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