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AbB 13, 125 (P510843)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 125
ID	P510843
Museum no.	BM 086567
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 i3-li2-am-ta#-ha#-ar#	to Ilī-amtahar
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma li#-pi2#-it#-{d}mar-tu-ma	Thus Lipit-Amurrum:
4	{d}utu li#-ba-al#-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	asz-szum {disz}ta-ri-bu	Concerning Taribu
6	a-na ni-pu#-ut# {disz}u-bar-esz18-dar	to Ubar-Ištar
7	a-wi#-lam# i-na# s,i#-bi#-it-tim	a man in a trap
8	ta-ka-al#-la#-[a]	you will eat
9	szum-ma a-wi-lum# szu#-u2	If that man
10	im-tu-ut	he died
11	pi-ha-at a-wi-lim	the responsibility of a man
12	sza-a-ti i-na mu-uh#-[hi-ka]	that one on your account
13	u2-ul i-sza-ak-ka#-nu	they shall not place.
reverse
1	a-wi-lum szu-u2	that man
2	_sza3 kaskal_-na-tim sza _an-za-gar3#-lugal#_	of the caravans of Anzagar-šarri
3	a-wi-lam sza-a-ti	that man
4	szu-s,i-a-asz-szu-u2-ma	bring him out, and
5	a-na s,e-ri-ia szu#-[ri-a-asz-szu]	to my country, his country

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