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EA 102 (P270909)

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

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Designation	EA 102
ID	P270909
Museum no.	BM 029806(Egypt)
Collection	British Museum, London, 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)

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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}ia-an-ha]-mi# [...]	to Iān-ḫamu
2	[qi2]-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {disz}ri-ib-{d}iszkur	Thus Rib-Addu:
4	a-na _giri3-mesz_-ka am-qu2-ut	I fall at your feet.
5	_{d}nin_ sza _iri_ gub-la	the goddess of the city of Gubla
6	_dingir lugal en_-ia li-din	May the god of the king, my lord, give
7	_tesz2-ba_-ka a-na pa-ni _lugal_ be-li-ku	Your word to the king, your lord:
8	_{d}utu kur-didli-mesz{ki}_ sza2-ni-tam ti-di-mi	Šamaš of the land of Dilmun, secondly, you know.
9	i-nu-ma lam-da-ta uh-hu-ra-ta	When you have redeemed yourself,
10	a-s,a a-na mi-nim ta-szap-par-ta	“Why do you write to me?"
11	u3 an-nu-u2 i-na-an-na ti-ir-bu	And this is the tirbu.
12	a-na _e2_-ti ri-qi2 ga-mi-ir gab2-bu	to the temple a reed offering full, all
13	ti-ih!-ta-ti gab2-ba sza2-ni-tam	all the tihtātu-offerings, one another
14	i-nu-ma ta-asz-tap-ra a-na ia-szi	When you wrote to me,
15	a-lik-mi i-zi-iz a-na _iri_ s,u-mu-ur	went and stood to watch over the city.
16	a-di ka-sza-di-ia	as far as my destination
17	ti#-de i-nu-ma nu-kur2-tu4-_mesz_	When the incantation priests
18	_kal-ga_ ma-gal _ugu_-ia	the mighty are greatly upon me.
reverse
1	u3 u2-ul i-le-u2!# a-la-kam2#	and he will not go
2	u3 a-nu-ma _iri_ am-pi2 nu-kur3-tu4#	Now, the city of Ampi is not changed
3	it-ti-ia ti-de i-<nu-ma>	You know with me. When
4	_lu2-gal_ u3 _lu2-mesz_ be-li _iri_-lim	the chief and the people, my lord of the city
5	szal-mu it-ti _dumu#-mesz_ {disz}ARAD2-asz-ra-ta	It is well with the sons of Warad-Ašrata.
6	u3 ki-na-an-na la i-li-u2	and truth, he does not know.
7	a-la-kam2 ti-de i-nu-ma gab2-bu	you will go. When the whole
8	sza-ru u3 la-[mi] ti#-sza-lu-ni!	You are exalted and proud.
9	a-na _lu2_ ha-ia-bi#-ia# u3 i-na-an-na	to the man of Haiabiya, and now
10	ki-na-an-na pal-ha-ku sza2-ni-tam	In truth, I am afraid, secondly,
11	szi-me-e ia-szi hu-mi-t,ax(MA) ki-ma	“Speech my fate’, like
12	ar-hi-isz ka-sza-da u3	quickly Kašada and
13	i-ru-ub asz-ra-nu ti-de i-nu-ma _lu2-mesz_	he entered. You know that when the men
14	sza#-ru-tu4 szu-nu sza2-ni-tam la-mi	These are the šarūtu-offerings. The second one is called Lamu.
15	[tu-uh]-hi#-ra ka-sza-da	he will conquer.
16	[u3 usz-szi-ra] _erin2-mesz_ pi2-t,a2-[ti]	and he brought the prisoners of war.
17	[...] ka#	... mouth
left
1	[x] ru#-ub# la tu-pal-la-ah#	... do not fear!
2	[u3 ir]-ba-ta a-na _iri_-lim u3	and entered, to the city and
3	isz#-tu lib3-bi-szi ta-szap-par2 a-na x	From it you will send to .

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