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Letter from Sîn-illat to Iddin-Dagan about confronting the Martu (Q000562)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Sîn-illat to Iddin-Dagan about confronting the Martu |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000562 |
| 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-ŋa₂ u₃-na-dug₄ | Lugal-ba said to him: |
| 2 | {m}{d}suen-illat ra-bi-si₂-ka₃-tum-ma | Sîn-tillati, the rabi-sikatum |
| 3 | arad-zu na-ab-be₂-a | “Do not speak to your servant! |
| 4 | ka-ku-la-tum{ki} gaba-ri gid₂-da-ŋu₁₀-ne | Kakkulatum, when he was long-winded, |
| 5 | mar-tu {ŋiš}tukul-ta šubtum₆-ta im-zig₃ | The Amorite rose from awe-inspiring terror, |
| 6 | ŋe₂₆-e X x-ga-ŋu₁₀-ne x X 70 i₃-dab₅ | ... 70 he seized. |
| 7 | ka-ku-la-tum{ki}-še₃ ba-ni-in-kur₉ | he brought into Kakulatum. |
| 8 | tukum-bi lugal-ŋu₁₀ ugnim-ma tuš-u₃-bi ab-be₂ | If Lugal-būšu speaks of living in the army, |
| 9 | {kuš}a-ŋa₂-la₂ keše₂-da-bi šu he₂-mi-ib-da₁₃-da₁₃ | May the abala drum and its strings be smashed |
| 10 | tukum-bi lugal-ŋu₁₀ ugnim-ma nu-tuš-u₃-bi ab-be₂ | If a king does not dwell in the army, he says: |
| he₂-em-ma-sug₂-ge-eš lugal-ŋu₁₀ he₂-en-zu he₂-em-ma-sub₂-be₂-eš a-ma-ru-kam | May they stand before me, may they know my king and may they subdue me! It is an amaru |
Sources & licences
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