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Letter from Iddin-Dagan to Sîn-illat about the troops (Q000563)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Iddin-Dagan to Sîn-illat about the troops |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000563 |
| 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 | {m}{d}suen-illat ra-bi-si₂-ka₃-tum-ma u₃-na-a-dug₄ | Sîn-tillati, the rabi-sikatum priestess, he gave to him. |
| 2 | {d}i-din-{d}da-gan lugal-zu na-ab-be₂-a | Iddin-Dagan, your king, should say: |
| 3 | kaskal-ŋu₁₀ ni₂-tuku saŋ gi₄-a gu₂ id₂-da 2(MIN)-a-bi mu-da-ab-bal-e | (Sum) The one who has a fear of the road, the one who turns back (Akk) Its fearsome road, which turns back(?) the bank of the river |
| 4 | ka-ku-la-tum{ki} gaba-ri gid₂-da-zu-u₃-ne | When you go around Kakkulatum, |
| 5 | {d}lamma {d}da-gan {d}X X u₃ {d}en-lil₂ lugal kalam x erin₂-na gu₂ bi-in-ri | Lamma, Dagan, ... and Enlil the king of the land ... the troops gathered. |
| 6 | me-lem₄-ŋu₁₀ kalam-ma ba-e-dul | Enlil covered the Land with splendor. |
| 7 | u₃ za-e nam-ur-saŋ nam-kalag-ga-zu X X-bi-še₃ ba-e-x | And you, your heroism and mighty power ... |
| 8 | x TAR x ba-an-da-x | ... ... |
| 9 | nam-lugal x |DU.DU|-a ba-X-X | kingship ... |
| 10 | ugnim x x{ki} bi₂-x | the army of ... |
| 11 | kiŋ₂ gal-la x | the great place |
| 12 | lu₂ X X-ne en-nu-uŋ₃ ŋa₂-ŋa₂-da | The one who ... the watch |
| 13 | a-ga-aš gi₄-bi he₂-mi-in-du₈ | May he release this curse. |
| 14 | ku₄-ku₄ ed₂-de₃ kiŋ₂ bar ha-ra-ak-ne | they shall bring him into the steppe, the outer place. |
| 15 | lugal-ŋu₁₀ TUKU GA NE ŊA₂ X NA | (If) a man ... . |
| 16 | ka lul-za u₃-mu-e-X X | In your false mouth ... |
| ugnim-zu nam-ba-e-la₂ ugnim-bi KAR nam-X x | Your army should not be carried off, its army ... | |
| 18 | ul₄-la-bi ŋa₂-nam-ma | “Its young men |
| 19 | a-ma-ru-kam | It is an amaru. |
Sources & licences
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