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AbB 12, 120 (P510643)

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

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Designation	AbB 12, 120
ID	P510643
Museum no.	BM 097444
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'	x x x x x x IZ	[......] fire
2'	szu-bi-la-am-ma	send me, and
3'	ma-la sza ha-asz-ha-ta	as much as a hašḫatu-vessel
4'	i-na tup-pi2-ka szu-up-ra-am-ma	Write me on your tablet, so that
5'	s,i-bu-tam ma-la ta-sza-pa-ra-am	as much as you write me,
6'	lu-pu-sza-ak-ku	let me do.
7'	la-ma mu-u2 i-na-asz-szu-ni	If he dies or flees,
8'	ar-hi-isz szu-bi-lam-ma	quickly send me, and
reverse
1	it-ti gi-ir-ri s,a-am-di	with the ṣāmdu-chariot
2	lu-ul-li-ik	let me go!
3	s,i-bu-ut ta-sza-pa-ra-am	you will send a message.
4	lu-ul-qe2-e-ma la-ma e-bu-ri	I shall take, and before the harvest
5	a-na ma-ah-ri-ka lu-ut-ta-al-ka	Let me go before you.
6	i-na an-ni-tim ta-ka-li ta-ma-ar	You will eat, you will see.
7	u3 tup-pa-ka a-na {d}nanna-ibila-ma-an-szum2	and your tablet to Nanna-ibila-manšum
8	_dub-sar erin2_ szu-bi-lam-ma	the scribe of the troops send me, and

Sources & licences

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