Elmeshu
someone's child · Babylonia · c. 18th–17th century BC
A person of Old Babylonian times who wrote a clay-tablet letter to a father, still waiting for the sheep and silver that had been promised.
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c. 18th–17th century BC
thou, my father, didst say, “When I shall go to Dûr-Ammi-zadûga, which is on the River Sharḳu, I will forward a sheep and five minas of silver, in a little while, to thee.” This thou saidest, my father, and my expectation was from my father. But thou hast not sentA letter on a clay tablet · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
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