Ibgatum
farmer · Babylonia · c. 18th–17th century BC
A man of Old Babylonian times who sent his master a letter on a clay tablet. The enemy had taken his oxen, and he asked for one young cow.
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c. 18th–17th century BC
As, my lord, thou hast heard, the enemy has carried off my oxen. Never before have I sent to thee, my lord. Now I have caused a letter to be brought to thee, my lord. Do thou, my lord, send me one young cow.A clay-tablet letter to his master · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
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