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AbB 10, 059 (P523860)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Pī-Kasî · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	AbB 10, 059
ID	P523860
Museum no.	WHM 37877
Collection	Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Pī-Kasî (mod. Tell Abu Antiq)
Coordinates	32.1311, 44.6393

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-sza-mu-uh	to Sîn-šamuḫ
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma e-tel-pi4-{d}marduk-ma	thus Etel-pî-Marduk:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-t,u2-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	_5(asz) gu2 {gesz}zu2 geszimmar_	5 talents of date palm
6	1(gesz2) 1(u) {gesz}wa-s,i-tum sza-bu-ul-tam	70 beams of redwood,
7	es-ha-am-ma szu-bi#-lam#	Send me an eshammu.
8	x x x x x x ma	[......] "
reverse
1	[x x x x] am	...... I
2	[...]
3	[ni-ka]-as#-si#-szu-nu	we shall bind them.
4	li-pu-szu-nim	they should do.
5	a-na _e2_ {d}iszkur-szar-rum	to the temple of Adad-šarrum
6	a-di ni-ka-as-su2-szu-[nu?]	together with their ni-kassu(?)
7	in-ni-ip-pu-szu#	they shall perform.
8	ma!(A)-am-ma-an la i-sa-an#-[ni]-iq#	Nobody shall take it away.

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