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This volume provides a selection of letters from ancient Western Asia up to the time of the First Dynasty of Isin. These letters were written on clay tablets with the cuneiform script; they are the earliest epistolary writings known to us from any part of the globe. The texts are translated from three languages—Sumerian, Eblaite, and Old Akkadian—all of which are imperfectly understood at...

Tell Nabasa not to detain the servant girl that Lu-Dumuzi has married because of the KA-flour. She is a servant girl of Duganizi! 130. TCS 1 159 (ITT 3 5058) 1. na-ba-sa6-ra 2. ù-na-a-dug4 3. dam da-da-ra 4. zíd pad-ra-šè 5. úgu-a-na nu-ub-gál 6. na-ba-dù Tell Nabasa not to detain the wife of Dada (just because) there are no flour subsistence (rations) on his account! 131. TCS 1 229 (BM 25410) 1. ur-dlama 2. ù-na-a-dug4 3. dam lugal-a-ru-a-ka 4. a-šà-ga-ni 5. damar-dsìn-ur-sag-e 6. ba-ab-gub 7. a-šà
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