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AbB 13, 061 (P510779)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 061
ID	P510779
Museum no.	BM 079470
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Sippar-Amnanum (mod. Tell ed-Der)
Coordinates	33.0991, 44.2991

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	asz-szum _1/3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_	Because 1/3 shekel of silver
2	sza qa2-ti-ka	of your hand
3	szu-bu-lim asz-pu-ra-ak-kum-ma	I sent you a message.
4	um-ma at-ta-ma	Thus you:
5	a-na zimbir{ki} a-al-la-ak-ma	to Sippar I went, and
6	a-na ta-ri-ba-at-{d}suen	to Tarībat-Sîn
7	a-na-ad-di-in	I will give.
8	sza ta-asz-pu-ra-am	which you wrote me
reverse
1	i-na-an-na tup-pi2 usz-ta-bi-la#-ku	Now I have sent a tablet to you.
2	_1/3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ i-di-isz-szum	1/3 shekel of silver he gave him.
3	ka-ni-ka-ti-ka li-qe2	May your sealed document be taken.
4	a-na la ma-at-ti	without a claim
5	it-ti-ia la te-ze-ni	Do not be angry with me!
6	s,u2-ha-ri ri-qu2-us-su	ṣuḫari means “to flee.‭
7	la tu-ta-ar-ra-asz-szu	you shall not return him.

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