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TIL Dabitum, a slave-girl during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900–1600 BC), is known today for her letter to her slave master concerning a miscarriage, which she wrote either herself or with the help of a scribe, to the absent father to communicate the distressing news and beg for help

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