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品名（中）	楔形文字碑：私人信件
品名（英）	Cuneiform tablet: private letter
入馆年号	1886年，86.11.111
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1632
创作地区
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尺寸	9.2 x 5.2 x 2.6 厘米 (3 5/8 x 2 x 1 英寸)
介绍（中）	粘土片足够小，干燥后可以携带和耐用，可以在时间和空间上传输信息。尽管使用芦苇笔可以将不同的文字和语言压印到粘土中，但这种书写方法最常用于用楔形文字和阿卡德语创作文本在这封信中，一位名叫Marduk mushalim的人写信给他的上级，报告一位国王——可能是巴比伦国王Ammisaduqa——命令的执行情况。这封不同寻常的信写于巴比伦国家崩溃前几十年，暗示了预示着并可能促成该国最终垮台的动荡。在这封信和其他一些类似的信中，麻烦来自农村，而不是特定的城市。根据Marduk mushalim的说法，国王希望加强Sippar Yahrurum市（巴比伦北部）周围的安全，部分原因是为了保护牲畜免受敌对部队的袭击。马尔杜克穆斯林警告说，国王的命令没有得到执行，尤其是在夜间关闭城门。
介绍（英）	Small enough to be portable and durable when dried, clay tablets allowed for the transmission of information across time and space. Although different scripts and languages could be impressed into the clay using a reed stylus, this method of writing was most often used to create texts in the cuneiform script and Akkadian language. In this letter, a man named Marduk-mushallim writes to his superior to give a report on the implementation of order from a king – probably Ammisaduqa, a king of Babylon. Written several decades before the collapse of the Babylonian state, this unusual letter hints at the unrest that prefigured, and may have contributed to, the state’s eventual downfall. In this letter, and a few others like it, trouble comes from the countryside, rather than within particular cities. According to Marduk-mushallim, the king wants to increase security around the city of Sippar-Yahrurum (to the north of Babylon), in part to protect livestock from hostile troops. Marduk-mushallim warns that the king’s orders are not being implemented – particularly the closing of the city gate during the night hours.