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EA 023 (P270896)

Letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE

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Designation	EA 023
ID	P270896
Museum no.	BM 029793(Egypt)
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Egyptian; Akkadian
Period	Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Akhetaten (mod. el-Amarna)
Coordinates	27.6400, 30.8959

Transliteration (ATF)

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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}ni-im-mu-ri-ia _lugal kur_ mi-is,-ri-i	to Nimmuriya, king of the land of Miṣri
2	_szesz_-ia ha-ta-ni-ia sza a-ra-'a-a-mu	my brother, my friend, whom I love,
3	u3 sza i-ra-'a-a-ma-an-ni qi2-bi2-ma	And say to me what he loves:
4	um-ma {disz}du-usz-rat-ta _lugal_ mi-i-ta-an-ni	Thus says Dušrata, the king:
5	sza i-ra-'a-a-mu-ka e-mu-ka-ma	who loves you, your army,
6	a-na ia-szi szul-mu a-na ka-a-sza lu-u2 szul-mu	To me, well-being to you! May you be well!
7	a-na _e2_-ka a-na {munus}ta-a-tu4-he2-pa _dumu-munus_-ia	to your house, to Tātu-hepa, my daughter
8	a-na _dam_-ka sza ta-ra-'a-a-mu lu-u2 szul-mu	To your wife who loves you, may it be well.
9	a-na _dam_-ka a-na _dumu-mesz_-ka a-na _lu2-mesz gal_-ka	to your wife, your sons, your great men
10	a-na _{gesz}gigir-mesz_-ka a-na _ansze-kur-ra-mesz_-ka	to your chariots, to your horses
11	a-na _erin2-mesz_-ka a-na _kur_-ka u3 a-na	to your troops, to your land and to
12	mim-mu-ka dan-nisz2 dan-nisz2 dan-nisz2 lu-u2 szul-mu	May everything of yours be very, very very well.
13	um-ma {d}inanna sza _iri_ ni-i-na-a _nin kur-kur_	Thus (says) Ištar of the city Nineveh, lady of the lands:
14	gab2-bi-i-szi-na-ma a-na _kur_ mi-is,-ri-i	all of them to the land of Miṣri
15	i-na _kur_ sza a-ra-'a-a-mu lu-ul-lik-ma-me	in the land of Ara'amu may I go.
16	lu-us-sa3-he2-er-me a-nu-um-ma i-na-an-na	Now then
17	ul-te-e-bil2-ma it-tal-ka	I have sent, and he has come.
18	a-nu-um-ma i-na ter-s,i a-bi-ia-ma	Now, in the presence of my father
19	dingir?-isz?-be?-tu4 i-na _kur_ sza-a-szi it-tal-ka	Ilum-išbetu came to that land.
20	[u3] ki-i-me-e i-na pa-na-a-nu-um-ma#	and if in the presence
21	it-ta-szab-ma uk-te-eb-bi-du-szi#	he sat down, and he made her rise.
reverse
1	u3 i-na-an-na _szesz_-ia a-na 1(u)-szu	and now my brother for 10 (shekels)
2	_ugu_ sza pa-na-a-nu# li-ge-eb-bi-is-si	Concerning what is in front of me, may it be loosened.
3	_szesz_-ia li-ge-eb-bi-is-su2 i-na ha-de-e	my brother may he bind him with joy.
4	li-mesz3-szer3-szu-ma li-du-u-ra	may he recite to him and he will die.
5	{d}inanna _nin_ sza-me-e _szesz_-ia u3 ia-szi	Ištar, lady of heaven, my brother and me
6	li-is,-s,ur-an-na-szi 1(disz) me li-im _mu-mesz_	may he guard us for 100 thousand years
7	u3 he2-du-ta ra-bi-ta _nin_-ni5	and hedūta, the great, his mistress,
8	a-na ki-la-a-al-li-ni li-id-din-an-na-szi-ma	may he give us to the kilā-al-linni, and
9	u3 ki-i ta-a-bi i ni-pu-usz	And as you said, we shall do it.
10	{d}inanna a-na ia-szi-ma-a i-li#	Ištar, to me, god
11	u3 a-na _szesz_-ia la-a il-szu	and to my brother not his ilku-duty

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