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AbB 13, 143 (P510861)

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

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Designation	AbB 13, 143
ID	P510861
Museum no.	BM 094457
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-li	to Sîn-ušallim
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma e2-a-la-ma-si2-ma#	thus Ea-lamassima
4	{d}utu# u3 {d}x x x x	Šamaš and
5	asz-szum-ia li-ba-al-li-t,u2#-ka#	Because of me, may they keep you alive.
6	a-wi-lum {disz}li-pi2-it-e2-a	a man Lipit-Ea
7	u2-ul na-ka-ra-am	is not to be altered.
8	a-na {disz}i-bi-{d}suen qi2-bi2-ma#	Speak to Ibbi-Sîn
9	di-in-szu ki-ma sza a-na-ku#	his case, as I
reverse
1	[az]-za-az#-zu#	I will stand.
2	li#-di#-in#	let him give.
3	u3 at-ta-a-[ma]	and you
4	[a-na] a-li-szu la ta#-[(al)-la-ak]	Do not go to his city!
5	[a]-wi-lum it#-ta-al#-[kam]	a man has gone
6	tup-pi2 a-wi-lim#	A tablet of a man
7	a-na {disz}i-bi-{d}suen <<u2-sza#>>	to Ibbi-Sîn
8	u2-sza-bi-lam	he sent.
9	a-ah-ka e-li-szu	“My brother, above him
10	la ta-na-an-di	do not delay!

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