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AbB 12, 084 (P510608)

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

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Designation	AbB 12, 084
ID	P510608
Museum no.	BM 097220
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 _ugula gidri_ sza {d}marduk u2-ba-al-la-t,u2-szu#	to the foreman of the scepter of Marduk they shall release him.
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}suen-mu-sza-lim-ma	thus Sîn-mušallim:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	lu sza-al-ma-ta	may it be well.
6	_1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_ da-qa2-ti ib-ni-{d}mar-tu _ugula mar-tu_	10 shekels of refined silver, Ibni-Amurrum, foreman of Amurrum
7	mu-hu-ur-ma	received, and
8	sza _1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_ szu-a-ti	of that 10 shekels of silver
9	u2-lu ma-ah-ri-ka	or before you
10	u2-lu i-na a-lim e-ma i-ba-asz-szu#-u2	or in the city, wherever there is
11	sza-a-am	that
12	t,e4-ma-am szu-up-ra-am-ma	Send me a report!
13	i-na zimbir{ki} a-na pu-uh2-hi lu-ud-di-in-ma	in Sippar I shall give as a loan.
14	pu-uh2-szu
reverse
1	i-na babila2{ki}	in Babylon
2	lu-ul-qe2	I shall take.

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