Belshunu Bêlshunu
prisoner · Babylonia · c. 18th–17th century BC
A man of Old Babylonian times who was shut in prison and sent his master a letter on a clay tablet. Nothing is known of him beyond this one letter.
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c. 18th–17th century BC
What is the reason that my lord has neglected me for five months? The house where I am imprisoned is a starvation-house. Now have I made the jailer carry a letter to my lord.A letter on a clay tablet · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
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