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EA 224 (P270951)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 224 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270951 |
| Museum no. | BM 029849(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 _{d}utu_]-ia | To Lugal, my lord, my Šamaš |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-[ma] | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}szum-ad-da# _ARAD2#_ sza# _lugal en_-ia | Thus says Šum-adda, servant of the king, my lord: |
| 4 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 5 | am-qu2-ut-me | I plundered. |
| 6 | 7(disz)-szu u3 7(disz)-ta-a-an | 7 times and 7 times |
| 7 | i-nu-ma sza#-par2-mi | when the message |
| 8 | _lugal en_-ia a-na sze-im-_mesz_ <du>-uh#-ni | The king, my lord, will pay back the barley. |
| 9 | :" mu-hu-s,u | “Head-rope |
| 10 | ia-asz-al-mi3 | Yašalmi |
| 11 | _lugal en_-ia | the king, my lord |
| 12 | _lu2-mesz maszkim2_-szu | the men responsible for him |
| 13 | szum-ma | If |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | tu#-ub-ba#-lu-na | you will fill |
| 2 | _lu2-mesz_ a-bu-tu-nu | the men of Abutunu |
| 3 | asz-szum _u4-kam-mesz_ | concerning the days |
| 4 | {disz}ku-su2-na | Kusuna |
| 5 | _lu2_ a-bi-nu | the man of Abinu |
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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