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AbB 13, 129 (P510847)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 129
ID	P510847
Museum no.	BM 087307
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] a-bi-ia#	to my father
2	[qi2]-bi2-ma	speak!
3	[um]-ma# {d}suen-na-s,i-ir-ma	thus Sîn-nāṣir:
4	[{d}]utu# u3 {d}marduk da-ri-isz _u4_-mi	Shamash and Marduk forever
5	a-bi ka-ta li-ba-al-li-t,u2	(Sum) My father, may he live in your mouth (Akk) May my father be alive from your mouth
6	a-bi at#-ta# [lu] sza#-al-ma-ta lu# ba#-al#-t,a-ta	May you be well, may you be healthy!
7	[_dingir_ na-s,i-ir a-bi-ia re-esz] a-bi#-ia# a-na# da-mi-iq-tim li-ki-il	May the god who guards my father and the head of my father be at peace.
8	[...] x
reverse
1'	[x x x (x) (x)] x a-hi {d}suen#-x x x x	... brother of Suen-
2'	[x x x (x) (x)]-ba-ab-ba#-bu	... they shall ...
3'	[x x x x (x) (x)] x i-sza-ap-pa-ra-am-ma	... will write to me and
4'	[...] x x szu-a-ti	... that
5'	[...] x x tum?	... ...

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