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AbB 13, 057 (P510776)

Letter, Early Old Babylonian, Kisurra · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE

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Designation	AbB 13, 057
ID	P510776
Museum no.	BM 028497
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Kisurra (mod. Abu Hatab)
Coordinates	31.8383, 45.4810

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 lu2#-{d}ba#-[ba6]	to Lu-Baba
2	{disz}qi2-isz-{d}ma-ma# [(x)]	Qiš-Mama
3	{d}suen-i-qi2-sza-am	Sîn-iqišam,
4	u3 ZA-ra-qi2	and ZA-raqi
5	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
6	um-ma a-hu-um-ma	Thus Aḫum:
7	a-na mi-ni-im	what
8	_i3-gesz_ sza _dam-gar3_-ri	oil of the merchant
9	qa2#-al-la-am	a reed bundle
10	ta-am-hu-ra-ma	you will receive, and
reverse
1	_i3-gesz_	oil
2	tu-qa2-li-la	Tuqallila
3	szu-up-ra-szu-nu-ti-ma	send them, and
4	_i3-gesz_	oil
5	li-da-mi-qu2	may they surpass.
6	sza-ni-tam2	another
7	{disz}dingir-dingir-sze-me-a	Ilī-dingir-šemea
8	_ku3-babbar_-ap i x e	silver ... above
9	a-na s,e-ri-ia#	to my country
10	li-ib-lam	may he bring.

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