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AbB 12, 186 (P510708)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	AbB 12, 186
ID	P510708
Museum no.	BM 066438
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Coordinates	33.0605, 44.2552

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 be#-[li2-ia]	to my lord
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}marduk-mu#-ba-li2-it,#	Thus Marduk-muballiṭ
4	{d}suen# u3 {d}nin-gal da-ri-isz _u4_-[mi]	Suen and Ningal forever
5	li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive.
6	[lu]-u2 sza-al-ma-a-ta	may it be well
7	lu#-u2 ba!(SZA)-al-t,a-a-ta#	May you be pacified!
8	lu#-u2 da#-ri-a-ta	May you be everlasting!
9	[a]-na# szu-ul-mi-ia	for my well-being
10	sza# ta#-asz-pu#-ra#-am	which you wrote me
reverse
1	sza#-al#-ma-a-ku	I am well;
2	{d}marduk# _dingir_ a-li-ka	Marduk, god of your coming
3	da-ri-isz _u4_-mi li#-[ba-al]-li#-t,u3#-ka	may they keep you alive forever!
4	a-na szu-ul-mi-ka asz-[pu-ra-am]	I wrote to you for your well-being.
5	szu-lum-ka szu-up-ra-am#	Send me your well-being!

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

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