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AbB 12, 140 (P510663)

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

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Designation	AbB 12, 140
ID	P510663
Museum no.	BM 017162
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# [x x]-ia	to my ...
2	qi2#-[bi2]-ma	speak!
3	um#-[ma ...] x-ma	Thus ...:
4	{d}utu u3 [{d}]marduk# da-ri-isz _u4_-mi	Šamaš and Marduk forever
5	li-ba-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive!
6	lu sza-al-ma-ta lu ba-al-t,a-ta#	Be it good, be it faulty,
7	_dingir_ na-s,i-ir#-ka x ri-isz-ka a-na da#-mi#-[iq-tim]	O god, your guardian angel, your ... love is good for the life of the land.
8	li#-ki-il# a-na szu-ul-mi#-ka# asz-pu-ra#-[am]	I wrote to you for your well-being.
9	szu-lum-ka ma-har# {d}utu u3 {d}marduk	Your health before Šamaš and Marduk
10	lu da-ri	may it be forever!
11	{disz}sin-i-din-nam x x x x	Sin-iddinam
reverse
1	a-na ma-ah-ri-ka at,-t,ar-dam#	I have sent to you.
2	{disz}[x x (x)] x-{d}utu	-Šamaš
3	x [x x x (x)]-ma	... and
4	a-na x [x x x (x)]-ma	to ... and
5	ri-x x [x x (x)] x	... ...
6	u3 ze-eh#-pi2 [(x) (x)]	and sulphur ...
7	ki-[(i)-il]	he raised up.

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