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Publication
Primary publication:	OECT 03, 01
Author:	Driver, Godfrey R.
Publication date:	1917
Secondary publication(s):	Kraus, Fritz R., AbB 04 (1968) 079
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CDLI no.:	P384863
UCLA Library ARK	21198/zz00210s98
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Source of original electronic files
Catalogue:	20080507 cdliadmin_brumfield
Transliteration:	Wagensonner, Klaus
Translation:	uncertain
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Collection Information
Owner:	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Museum no.:	Ashm 1923-0006
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Genre:	Letter
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Language:	Akkadian

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Object type:	tablet
Material:	clay
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Provenience:	Larsa (mod. Tell as-Senkereh)
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Chronology:
Period:	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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Date of Origin:	Hammurapi.00.00.00
Dates referenced:	Hammurapi.00.00.00
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Tablet

obverse
1. a-na {d}utu-ha-zi-ir
#tr.en: To Šamaš-ḫazir
2. qi2-bi2-ma
#tr.en: speak,
3. um-ma ha-am-mu-ra-pi2-ma
#tr.en: thus Hammurapi:
4. {disz}i3-li2-ip-pa-al-sa3-am _sipa_
#tr.en: Ilī-ippalsam, the shepherd,
5. ki-a-am u2-lam-mi-da-an-ni um-ma szu-ma
#tr.en: thus informed me, as follows that one:
6. _3(bur3) asza5{a-sza3}_ sza i-na ka-ni-ik be-li2-ia
#tr.en: A field of 3 bur3, which through a sealed document of my lord
7. ka-an-kam
#tr.en: was given (lit. sealed) to me—
8. isz-tu _mu 4(disz)-kam_ {disz}e-tel-pi2-{d}marduk i-ki-ma-an-ni-ma
#tr.en: 4 years ago Etel-pî-Marduk took it away from me, and
9. _sze_-szu il-te-ne-eq-qi2
#tr.en: its barley regularly takes.
10. u3 {d}suen-i-din-nam u2-lam-mi-id-ma
#tr.en: Further, Sîn-iddinam I informed,
11. u2-ul u2-te-er-ru-nim
#tr.en: but it was not returned to me;
12. ki-a-am u2-lam-mi-da-an-ni
#tr.en: Thus he (Ilī-ippalsam) informed me.
13. a-na {d}suen-i-din-nam asz-tap-ra-am
#tr.en: To Sîn-iddinam I (now) have written.
14. szum-ma ki-ma i3-li2-ip-pa-sa3-am szu-u2
#tr.en: If, as that Ilī-ippalsam
15. iq-bu-u2
#tr.en: said,
16. _3(bur3) asza5{a-sza3}_ sza i-na _e2-gal_
#tr.en: a field of 3 bur3, which in the palace
17. ka-an-ku-szum
#tr.en: was given (lit. sealed) to him,

reverse
1. {d}e-tel-pi2-{d}marduk isz-tu _mu 4(disz)-kam_ il-qe2-e-ma
#tr.en: Etel-pî-Marduk 4 years ago took away, and
2. i-ik-ka-al
#tr.en: is ‘eating,′
3. e-li-sza a-wa-tum# ma-ru-usz-tum
#tr.en: then a more sickening case
4. u2-ul i#-ba-asz-szi
#tr.en: does not exist.
5. wa-ar-ka-at a-wa-tim szu-a-ti
#tr.en: With this matter
6. dam-qi2-isz pu-ur-sa-ma
#tr.en: deal well, and
7. _a-sza3#_-am sza pi2-i ka-ni-ki-im
#tr.en: the field that according to the wording of the sealed document
8. sza i-na _e2-gal_ ik-ka#-an-ku-szum
#tr.en: in the palace was sealed for him,
9. a-na i3-li2-ip-pa-al-sa3-am te-er-ra#
#tr.en: to Ili-ippalsam have returned.
10. u3 _sze_-am sza isz-tu _mu 4(disz)-kam_
#tr.en: Further, the barley that for 4 years
11. i-na _a-sza3_ szu-a-ti {disz}e-tel-pi2-{d}marduk
#tr.en: on that field Etel-pî-Marduk
12. il-te-eq-qu2-u2
#tr.en: has been taking regularly,
13. i#-na# _{gesz}tukul_ sza _dingir_ bi-ir-ra-ma
#tr.en: through the divine weapon investigate, and
14. a-na i3-li2-ip-pa-al-sa3-am _sipa_
#tr.en: to Ilī-ippalsam, the shepherd,
15. id-na
#tr.en: give!
16. u3 te4-em di-nim szu-a#-ti#
#tr.en: Further, a report regarding this litigation
17. szu-up-ra-nim#
#tr.en: send here!

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