Zimri-eraḫ
someone's child · Babylonia · c. 18th–17th century BC
A man of Old Babylonian times living away from home in a village on a canal. He sent silver to his father with a clay-tablet letter asking for food to be sent.
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c. 18th–17th century BC · The second half of a letter from a son living away from home to his father. It opens by asking after his father's health.
I am located at Dûr-Sin on the canal Kashtim-sikirim. There is no meat fit to eat. Now I have made them bring two-thirds of a shekel of silver to thee. For this money send some nice fish and something to eat.An Old Babylonian letter on a clay tablet · in C. H. W. Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters (1904) · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
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