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Letter from Aba-taḫ-lugalĝa to his brothers (Q000578)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Aba-taḫ-lugalĝa to his brothers |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000578 |
| 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 | šeš-ŋu₁₀-ne u₃-na-dug₄ | When he speaks to him |
| 2 | {m}{d}a-ba₄-tah-lugal-ŋa₂-ke₄ na-ab-be₂-a | Aba-taḫ-lugal-ba says: |
| 3 | al-su₃-ud kaskal i-im-re₇-de₃-en | We are going on a campaign of exhaustion. |
| 4 | u₃ lugal gen₆-na lugal-me ŋiri₃ ba-an-us₂ | and the king who is like him, our king built a fortress. |
| 5 | kaskal-kaskal-e kaskal ba-an-tah | On the road he goes on the road. |
| 6 | ama-me en₃ li-bi₂-in-tar-re-de₃-en | Our mother inquires after us. |
| 7 | dag-gi₄-me ud na-an-šu₂-uš-a lul-aš | We are rebellious, the storm is a false wind |
| 8 | 1(DIŠ) sila₃ mun 1(DIŠ) sila₃ gazi | 1 sila3 of malt, [1 sila] of ghee, |
| 8A | x UŠ šu-ta e-x | from that |
| 9 | 1(DIŠ) šag₄-ga-du₃{tug₂} | 1: Šagg-gadu |
| 10 | lu₂ du hu-mu-e-x | May the one who goes ... |
| 11 | kaskal-me al-su₃-ud | Our road is long. |
| 12 | a-ma-ru-kam | It is an amaru. |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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