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EA 063 (P270919)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 063 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270919 |
| Museum no. | BM 029817(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)
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-ri _en_-ia | To Lugalru, my lord |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}ab-di-asz-ta-ti | Thus Abdi-Aštati: |
| 4 | _ARAD2_ {disz}lugal-ri | servant of Lugal-ri. |
| 5 | a-na _disz giri3-hi-a_ {disz}lugal-ri _en_-ia | to the feet of Lugalru, my lord |
| 6 | 7(disz) u3 7(disz) ma-aq-ta-ti a-na _giri3-mesz_ disz _lugal# en#_-[ia] am#-qu2-ut | I fell at the feet of the king, my lord, seven times and seven times. |
| 7 | u3 a-wa-ti qa-ba _lugal_-ri _en#_ | and the words of the king, my lord |
| 8 | [a]-na# {disz}a-szi u3 isz-te-mu | to Aši and he heard |
| 9 | [a]-wa-ti {disz}lugal-ri _en#_-[ia] | the words of Lugal-ri, my lord |
| 10 | [isz]-te#-mu u3 | heard, and |
| 11 | [li]-isz-te-mi {disz}lugal# _en#_-ia# | May Lugal, my lord, hear (this). |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [a-wa]-ti-ia [i-nu-ma] | my words when |
| 2 | [_kur2_]-nu# da#-na#-at _ugu#_-[ia] | a strong enemy against me |
| 3 | li#-di | may he know |
| 4 | [u3] yi#-il5#-ma#-ad# | and Ya'ilmad |
| 5 | {disz}lugal#-ri# | Lugalri |
Sources & licences
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- 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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