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SCT 072 (P511366)

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

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Designation	SCT 072
ID	P511366
Museum no.	Smith College 284
Collection	Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
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 be-el-szu-nu	to their owner
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}utu-ha-zi-ir-ma	Thus (says) Šamaš-hazir:
4	{d}utu li#-ba#-al-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	a-[na bi-tim la] te#-eg-gi	Do not return to the house!
6	[...] sze#-e-em	... šem
7	[...] x
reverse
1'	x x x x x x x x
2'	_a-sza3_ e-bi-ir-tim a-na _sze-gesz-i3_	field Ebirtum for sesame
3'	la te-pu-usz _geme2_ a-ki-la-at BA/ZU-ti-sza	you did not do, a female slave who is pregnant with her husband
4'	{disz}a-wi-li-ia _1(bur3) GAN2 a-sza3_	Awīliya, 1 bur3 field
5'	a-na _sze-gesz-i3_ e-pe2-szi-im iq-bi-a-am	to grind sesame he said to me
6'	a-li-ik qi2-bi-szum-ma	go! Speak to him!
7'	_1(bur3) GAN2 a-sza3_-am li-di-na-kum-ma	a field of 1 bur3 let him give to you, and
8'	_sze-gesz-i3_ e-pu-usz	sesame I made.

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