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Letter from Aradĝu to Šulgi about Aba-indasa's missing troops (Q000543)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Aradĝu to Šulgi about Aba-indasa's missing troops |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000543 |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nippur |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lugal-ŋu₁₀-ra u₃-na-dug₄ | to Lugal-bum he gave it. |
| 2 | arad₂-ŋu₁₀ arad₂-zu na-ab-be₂-a | Do not speak to your servant, your servant! |
| 3 | {m}a-ba-in-da-sa₂-a ugula erin₂ zu₂ keše₂ lugal niŋ₂ X mu-da-an-gi₄ | Aba-indasâ, the overseer of the troops, ..., the king turned to himself. |
| 4 | lugal-ŋu₁₀ bar inim-ma ha-ba-zu-zu-de₃ | May Lugal-bazu know how to speak a word |
| 5 | ud zi-mu-dar-ra-še₃ igi-ŋu₁₀ bi₂-ib-ŋar-ra | When he looks at Zimudara, |
| 6 | kaskal lugal-ŋu₁₀ erin₂ zig₃-ga-ŋu₁₀ | the journey of Lugal-bu, the troops of Zigga-bu |
| 7 | {m}a-ba-in-da-sa₂-a erin₂-bi igi u₃-bi₂-in-kar₂ | Aba-indasa looked at its troops. |
| 8 | 2 li-mu-um erin₂-bi nu-ŋal₂ | 2 equids, its troops not carried. |
| 9 | saŋ-ŋa₂ nu-un-DU igi nu-un-GI | He did not go to the quay, he did not see it. |
| 10 | ha-ra-kalag lugal-ŋu₁₀ mu-un-X x mu-un-dab₅ | He ... the king, he seized him. |
| 11 | x X-bi šer₇-da lugal x nu-AŠ | ... the king does not have |
| 12 | x-ba šu x | Hand of |
| 13 | x ka NI X x ŋar | ... ... |
| 14 | niŋ₂ lugal-ŋu₁₀ ab-be₂-na-ŋu₁₀ | “I will speak to Lugal-Baʿlu, |
| 15 | lugal-ŋu₁₀ he₂-en-zu | may he be your king! |
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