Unread Atlas
AbB 12, 165 (P510688)
Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | AbB 12, 165 |
|---|---|
| ID | P510688 |
| Museum no. | BM 023133 |
| 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 be-el bi-tim# | to the owner of the house |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-[ma] | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma _dumu-munus_ {d}suen#-x-x-ma | Thus the daughter of Sîn-, |
| 4 | {d}utu u3 {d}marduk [asz-szu]-mi#-ia | Šamaš and Marduk my fathers |
| 5 | da-ri-isz _u4_-mi# li#-ba-al-li#-t,u2-ka | forever, may they keep you alive! |
| 6 | bi-tum sza-lim u3 s,u2-ha-ru-u2 | The temple is well and the ṣuḫarû is well. |
| 7 | sza#-al-mu u3 _gu4# hi-a_ szi-ru-[szu]-nu | All is well, and the oxen are well. |
| 8 | sza-lim i-na _a-sza3_-im | are well. In the field |
| 9 | _sze_-am _3(u) [sze gur_] | the barley: 30 gur of barley |
| 10 | <<i>> el-qe2 i-na _a-sza3_ [x]-x-lim | he took. In the field ...-lim |
| 11 | _9(asz) sze gur_ el-qe2# | 9 gur of barley I took |
| 12 | u3 ki-a-am ta-asz-pu-ra-am | And you wrote me thus: |
| 13 | um#-ma at-ta#-ma | Thus you: |
| 14 | al#-wa-am u2-sza-bi-la-ki-im | I have sent to you. |
| 15 | al#-wa-am u2-ul i-di-nu-ni | They did not give it to me. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-wi#-lum# sza al-wa-am | A man who a widow |
| 2 | tu-sza-bi-la-ak-ku-um-ma | you sent to you, and |
| 3 | szu-up-ra-ma a-wi-la!(LI)-am sza-tu | send, and that man |
| 4 | a-al-wa-am lu-ri-isz | “I want to go down to the river. |
| 5 | u3 at#-ta# isz-tu# _u4_-mi-im | and you from the day |
| 6 | sza# al#-li#-ku t,e4-em-ka | that I went, your report |
| 7 | u2-ul# ta#-asz-pu-ra-am | You did not send me. |
| 8 | {disz}a-pil2-{d}mar-tu | Apil-Amurru |
| 9 | _dumu_ i3-li2-um-ma-ti | son of Ilī-ummatî |
| 10 | a-la-ak-ta-szu sa-ad-ra-at-ma | his journey is long and |
| 11 | ki-a-am aq-bi-szu um-ma a-na-ku-ma | I said to him thus: "I |
| 12 | su-hu-ur-szu-ma | remove him, and |
| 13 | t,e4-em-szu szu-up-ra-am | send me his report! |
| 14 | u3 a-na _a-sza3 sze-gesz-i3_ | and to the field of sesame |
| 15 | a-hi u2-ul na-di-i | I did not bring my brother. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.