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Ea 299 (P270934)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | Ea 299 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270934 |
| Museum no. | BM 029832(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 _en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia | To Lugal, my lord, my gods |
| 2 | _{d}utu_-ia _{d}utu_ sza isz#-tu | my Šamaš, the Sun who from |
| 3 | _an{sza10-me}_ um-ma {disz}ia-pa-'i3 | an eclipse, saying: “Ia-pa’i |
| 4 | _lu2_ sza _iri_ gaz-ri{ki} | the man of the city of Gazri |
| 5 | _ARAD2_-ka ep-ri sza _giri3-mesz_-ka | your servant, the foot of your feet |
| 6 | _lu2_ ku8-si2 _ansze-kur-ra-mesz_-ka | the man who the fish of your horses |
| 7 | a-na 2(disz) _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | for 2 feet of the king, my lord |
| 8 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia _{d}utu_ | my gods, my Šamaš, the Sun |
| 9 | sza isz-tu _an{sza10-me}_ 7(disz)-szu | which from heaven seven times |
| 10 | u 7(disz)-ta-a-an lu-u2 am-qut-ma | and seven times I fell, and |
| 11 | ka-bat-tum u s,e-ru-ma | “The stomach and the intestines |
| 12 | isz-te9-me a-wa-ti7-_mesz_ | have heard the words |
| 13 | _lu2-dumu_ szi-ip-ri sza _lugal_ | the messenger of the king |
| 14 | _en_-ia ma-gal ma-gal | my lord greatly, greatly |
| 15 | u li-im-li-ik _lugal en_-ia | and the king, my lord, may prosper. |
| 16 | _{d}utu_ sza isz-tu _an{sza10-me}_ | Šamaš, who from heaven |
| 17 | a-na _kur{ki}_-szu a-nu-ma | to his country now |
| 18 | da-an-nu _{lu2}sa-gaz-mesz_ | strong, the sagbabtu |
| 19 | _ugu_-nu u <yu>-usz-szi-ra | against us and yo’ušira |
| 20 | :" qa-at-szu _lugal en_-ia | the hand of the king, my lord |
| 21 | it#-ti-ia u lu-u2 | with me or |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | yi-it-ra-ni _lugal!# en_-ia | The king, my lord, should know this. |
| 2 | isz-tu qa-at | From the hand of |
| 3 | _{lu2}sa-gaz-mesz_ la-a | the sag-priests not |
| 4 | tu-ga-me-ru-nu | they shall return. |
| 5 | _{lu2}sa-gaz-mesz_-tu4 | the slaughterers |
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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