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AbB 13, 120 (P510838)

Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	AbB 13, 120
ID	P510838
Museum no.	BM 086046
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

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 {d}suen-u2-se2-el-li#	to Sîn-ušallim
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma dingir-szu-ib-ni-szu-ma	thus Ilu-šu-ibnīszu:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka#	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	asz-szum _sze_-e-im sza ta-asz-pu-ra-am	Concerning the barley about which you wrote me,
6	ki-i-ma te-esz-mu-u2	just as they heard
7	isz-tu ni-il-li-kam	After we went,
8	a-ah-hi a-bi-ia	the brother of my father
9	lu-uh-hu-szu-ni-a-ti	they shall remove them.
reverse
1	asz-szum _sze_-e-im sza ta#-[asz]-pu-ra#-am#	Concerning the barley about which you wrote me,
2	_sze_-a-am szu-a-ti	that barley
3	a-na {d}utu-li-wi-ir	To Šamaš-liwwir
4	ni-im-ta-da-ad-ma	we shall measure out, and
5	szum-ma di-gi-il-ka	If your divinity
6	i-na _sze_-e-im sza i-na	from the barley that in
7	{iri}za-ku-rum ni-zu-zu	Zakurum
8	t,e4-em-ka szu-up-ra-am-ma	Send me your report!
9	_sze_-a-am sza x x [...]	barley of ... ...
10	lu-sza-bi#-[la-kum]	let me send to you.

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