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EA 043 (P270878)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 043 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270878 |
| Museum no. | Ashm 1893-1-41 (408) |
| Collection | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE |
| Genre | letter |
| Find spot | Akhetaten (mod. el-Amarna) |
| Coordinates | 27.6400, 30.8959 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x-ku a-na muh#-[hi-ka?] | ... to you |
| 2' | [...]-ta5# an-ni-ta5 _dumu_-[szu?] | ... this, his son? |
| 3' | [x x i?]-pu#-sza-asz-szu i-na i?-[...] | ... they made him, in ... |
| 4' | [...] _lu2-mesz_ s,a-ap-ru-ti3 | ... the nobles |
| 5' | [x x] x an-ni-ta5 sza it-ti-szu | ... this which with him |
| 6' | [x x]-du-szu u3 i-du-ku-szu | ... and they killed him |
| 7' | [x x] i-di a-na pa-ni _dingir-mesz_ | ... knows before the gods. |
| 8' | [x x] te-di-i ki-i a-bu-szu | ... as his father |
| 9' | [x x] ip-pu-usz ki-i a-bu-szu | ... he will do as his father |
| 10' | [x] it-ta-la#-ak | ... has gone |
| 11' | [x] a-na-as,-s,a-ar-szu-nu-ma | ... I will keep watch over them and |
| 12' | [...] x-pa-szu-nu u3 _dumu_-szu _gal_ | ... their ... and his grandson, |
| 13' | [...] x-tim sza a-bi-szu | ... of his father |
| 14' | [...] x dam-qi2-isz ki-i ip#-pu-sza-asz-szu | ... good ... when they do it |
| 15' | [x] la-a te-di-i | ... you did not know |
| 16' | [x] x at-ta la-a te-[...] | ... you did not ... |
| 17' | [...]-ma ma-am-ma la-a [...] | ... no one |
| 18' | [...] u3 szu-u2 [...] | ... and he |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] | |
| 4' | [...] | |
| 5' | [...] x ma# a-[...] | ... ... |
| 6' | _hi#?-a_ ba-na#? | wages of Bana(?) |
| 7' | [...] bal? i-na#? | ... in |
| 8' | [...] x an-nu#-tim# [...] | ... these ... |
| 9' | [...] _{na4}za-gin3_ i-na# | ... lapis lazuli |
| 10' | _{na4#}za-gin3 gal saga_ li# | fine lapis lazuli |
| 11' | sza# _szesz_-ia ha-szih x | of my brother has seized ... |
| 12' | [...] a-na-ku? | I am |
| 13' | [...] szu | ... hand |
| 14' | [a-nu-um-ma? a-na? szu?]-ul-ma#?-[ni-ka? x x] | Now, for your well-being |
| 15' | [...]-x | |
| 16' | [...]-x | |
| 17' | [...]-x | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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