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EA 215 (P270945)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 215 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270945 |
| Museum no. | BM 029843(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 _lugal_-ri _en_-ia | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | _{d}utu_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia | my Šamaš, my gods |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}ba-ia-wa | Thus Bayawa: |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka :" ka-ba-tum-ma | your servant |
| 5 | u3 sza-sza-lu-ma | and Šašaluma |
| 6 | 7(disz) u3 szi-ib-e-ta-an | 7 and Šibetan |
| 7 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_-ri be-li-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 8 | _{d}utu_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia | my Šamaš, my gods |
| 9 | am-qu2-ut lu-u2 | I fall, whether |
| 10 | {disz}ia-an-ha-ma | Iaḫama, |
| 11 | i-ia-a-nu i-na | there is none in |
| 12 | [_mu_]-ti an-ni-te | This year |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [u3 ha]-al-qa-at-ma | and is stolen, and |
| 2 | gab2#-bi _kur-hi-a_-ti | all the lands |
| 3 | i-na _lu2-mesz_ sa-gaz#{ki#} | among the people of Sagaz |
| 4 | u3 bu-li-it, | and life |
| 5 | _kur-hi-a_-ka | of your land |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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