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BM.45484 (ebl:BM.45484)
CANONICAL > Historiography > Letter, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.45484 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.45484 |
| Museum no. | BM.45484 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Historiography > Letter |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| 9' | ... a requital of good fortune upon you, to be present.... and there is no one among you. |
| 1' | ...... |
| 10' | the foundation(?) of your troops |
| 17' | Now, let me speak to you: 'Let me eat the leftovers from that tahsitu?.' |
| 12' | you shall not seize that one |
| 15' | I sought out his shrines and...... he is a widow and widow. |
| 11' | Whom your great divinity is well, your army is well, your army is well. |
| 16' | ... |
| 3' | I wrote to him a word of well-being, but you did not know... to your heart. |
| 13' | In distant days you will be sated and you will not live in your hand. |
| 14' | may he not... for you. |
| 5' | I gave you in the future. You did not..., you did not establish your name, and you did not establish your name. |
| 2' | to your heart does not accept |
| 6' | numu-edala, the evil of Abkiji |
| 4' | The nanny did not smite(?) the nanny goat(?) |
| 7' | You do not abandon the instructions that you have given you, but give them to me. |
| 8' | who does not cease from your heart |
Sources & licences
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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