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AbB 12, 098 (P510622)
Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AbB 12, 098 |
|---|---|
| ID | P510622 |
| Museum no. | BM 097294 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
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 dingir-i3-in-tu-uh | to Ilum-īntuh, |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma pa-hu-ra-ma | Thus (says) Pahurama: |
| 4 | {d}utu u3 {d}marduk li-ba-li-t,u2-ka | May Šamaš and Marduk keep you alive! |
| 5 | i-nu-u2-ma a-ta u3 a-na-ku-u2 | When you and I |
| 6 | ni-in-na-am-ru-u2 | we have sworn. |
| 7 | um-ma a-na-ku-u2-ma | thus I: |
| 8 | _ku3-babbar_ a-nu-um-me-a-am | the silver now |
| 9 | id-nam{am} | gave, |
| 10 | ki-a-am ta-pu-la-an-ni | Thus you wrote me: |
| 11 | um-ma at-ta-ma# | Thus you: |
| 12 | gi-ir-ra-am al#-[li-ik] | I went to the reed-bed. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _ku3-babbar_ u2-ul na-szi-a-ak-ku# | The silver shall not be paid. |
| 2 | um-ma at-ta-ma | Thus you: |
| 3 | _u4 n-kam#_ i-na zimbir#{ki} | the nth day in Sippar |
| 4 | lu-szi-im#-ma _ku3-babbar_ lu-sza-bi-la-ku | let me determine, and let me send you the silver. |
| 5 | a-nu-um-ma {disz}sig-{d}suen | Now, Sîn |
| 6 | at,-t,ar-da-ku-u2 | I have sent to you. |
| 7 | _ku3-babbar_ szu-bi-lam | send me silver! |
| 8 | it-ti _ku3-babbar_ a-hu-ka | with the silver of your brother |
| 9 | li-il-li-ka-am | may he come. |
| 10 | ma-ar szi-ip-ri-im | before the work |
| 11 | sza asz-pur-ra-am | of which I wrote |
| 12 | la u2-la-pa-ta-am | he shall not remove |
| 13 | ar-hi-isz t,u2-ur-da | quickly the ṭurda |
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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