Education in the Earliest Schools 012 (P388260)

Letter tablet & envelope excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Cotsen Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Image © Lloyd E. Cotsen cuneiform tablets collection, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA (CC0-1.0)

Transliteration

tablet
obverse
1. a-na i-tur2-as3-du#
2. qi2#-bi2-ma
3. um-ma {d}gu-la-ba-la-su2-ma
4. asz-szum _a-sza3_-im
5. sza _a-sza3 sumun-hi-a_
6. ta-aq-bi-a-am
7. um-ma at-ta-a-ma
8. _a-sza3_-am ak-su2-um
9. asz-ku-uk esz-be2-er
10. u3 sze20-er-'a4-am asz-ku-un
11. {disz}{d}suen#-i-din-nam _szabra <<mesz>>_
12. a-na isz-lim-ki-nu-um
13. u3 {d}suen-za-ni-in
14. isz#-pu-ra-am-ma
15. [_5(disz)] {gesz}apin-hi-a_ it-bu-ni-im-ma
16. [la] i-na-wi-ra-am
17. [sze20]-er#-'a4-am ip-ta-ar-ka
18. [ki-a]-am# ta-asz-pu-ra-am
19. [a-na] szar-ri-im aq-bi-ma
20. [um-ma] a#-na-ku-u2-ma
21. [be-li2 isz-tu _mu 1(u)-kam_
reverse
  (n lines covered by the envelope)
1. a-na# [ni-szi-szu szar-ru-um]
2. it-ti-szu# [li-di-in]