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AbB 13, 078 (P510796)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 078
ID	P510796
Museum no.	BM 079905
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	i-na WA-hi-tim isz-me-e-ma	He heard (it) in the watercourse, and
2	_ensi2-mesz_ i-na _erin2-mesz_	governors among the troops
3	_sze-gesz-i3_ i-na na-pa-s,i-im szu-te-em-t,u2-u2	the sesame in the reedbeds they have dried up
4	ze2-eh-pi2 a-na ma-ah-ri-ka	“You are the one who slanders me in your presence.
5	usz-ta-bi-lam	he sent to me.
6	_5(asz) sze gur_ a-na el-me-szum	5 kor of barley for Elmeshum
7	u3 ku-ub-bu-rum i-di-in-ma	and Kubburum gave, and
8	_erin2 hun-ga2_ li-gu-ru-ma	hire labor-troops, and
9	_sze-gesz-i3_ li-ip-pu-SU	sesame may he sprinkle
10	u3 a-na-ku a-al-la-kam	and I am going.
reverse
1	szum-ma _ku3-babbar ganba_ a-lim	If silver, the market value of the city
2	szum-ma _sze_-am a-na _e2-i3-dub_-szu	If barley for his storehouse
3	lu-te-er	let me return.

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