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EA 061 (P270883)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 061 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270883 |
| Museum no. | Ashm 1893-1-41 (410) |
| 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 | [a-na {disz}]_lugal# {d}utu en_-ia | To king Šamaš, my lord |
| 2 | [um]-ma {disz}ARAD2-a-szi-ir-te _ARAD2_-[ka4] | Thus Abdi-Aširtu, your servant: |
| 3 | [u3?] t,i-id _giri3#-hi-a#_-ka4 _ur-[gi7_] | and the ṭīd of the dog's feet |
| 4 | sza# _e2 lugal en_-ia a-na# | of the house of the king, my lord |
| 5 | [_giri3?-mesz?] lugal#? [en?_]-ia#? nu?-[...] | The feet of the king, my lord, did not |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x x _ARAD2_ [...] | ... ... servant of ... |
| 2' | [_iri_] ul?-la?-asz-sze?{ki} a-na# | the city of Ullašsze to |
| 3' | [...] _iri_ s,u-mu-ri[{ki} ...] | ... the city Ṣumurrum |
| 4' | [x] gab2#?-ba2 _kur mar-tu#_ | ... the border of the land Amurru |
| 5' | [...] _lugal# {d}utu en_-ia# | ... king of Šamaš, my lord |
| 6' | [...] _lugal {d}utu en_-ia [...] | ... king of Šamaš, my lord |
| 7' | [...] u3 a-wa-tam li-te-[ra] | ... and a word may he return. |
| 8' | [...] a-na _ARAD2_-szu [...] | ... to his servant ... |
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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