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EA 030 (P270943)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 030 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270943 |
| Museum no. | BM 029841(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 _lugal-mesz_ sza _kur_ ki-na-a-ah-[hi] | to the kings of Kinahhu |
| 2 | _ARAD2-mesz szesz_-ia um-ma _lugal_-ma# | servants of my brother, thus says the king: |
| 3 | a-nu-um-ma {disz}a-ki-ia _lu2-dumu-kin_-ia | Now Akiya, my messenger |
| 4 | a-na _ugu lugal kur_ mi-is,-ri-i _szesz_-ia | to the king of the land of Mishrî, my brother: |
| 5 | a-na du-ul-lu-hi a-na kal2-le-e | for the work, for the kallê |
| 6 | al-ta-par2-szu ma-am-ma | I have sent to him, nobody |
| 7 | lu-u2 la i-na-ah-hi-is-su2 | may they not smite him. |
| 8 | na-as,-ri-isz i-na _kur_ mi-is,-ri-i | in the land of Miṣri |
| 9 | szu-ri-ba2 u3 a-na _szu_ | to Šuriba and to Hand of |
| 10 | _lu2#_ hal-zu#-uh-li sza _kur_ mi-is,-ri-i | a man of the halzuḫlu tribe of the land Miṣrî |
| 11 | id-na-x ha-mut-ta li-il-li#-ik# | May he go to the evildoer |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 kat?-su2 mi-im-ma | and all that |
| 2 | i-na muh-hi-szu lu-u2 la ib-ba2-asz-szi | shall not be placed upon him. |
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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