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EA 269 (P270948)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 269 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270948 |
| Museum no. | BM 029846(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 | To Lugal, my lord |
| 2 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {disz}mil-ki-li _ARAD2_-ka | thus Milki-ili, your servant: |
| 5 | ep-ri sza _giri3-mesz_-ka | the foot of your feet |
| 6 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 7 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 8 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2-a-an am-qut | I fall seven times seven times. |
| 9 | isz-te-me2 sza#-par2 | Written according to the wording |
| 10 | _lugal en_-ia a-na ia-szi | the king, my lord, to me |
| 11 | u3 yu-usz-szi-ra | and Yāšira |
| 12 | _lugal_ be-li _erin2-mesz_ pi2-t,a2-ta | the king, my lord, released the troops |
| 13 | a-na _ARAD2-mesz_-szu u3 | to his servants and |
| 14 | yu-usz-szi-ra | for Yaʾušši |
| 15 | _lugal_ be-li | the king, my lord |
| 16 | _szim-sar-mesz_ :" mu-ur-ra | šigû-aromatics, ditto urra-plant |
| 17 | a-na ri-pu-u2-ti | for the requisitions |
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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