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EA 282 (P270953)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 282 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270953 |
| Museum no. | BM 029851(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 | _dingir-mesz_-nu u3 _{d}utu_-ia | my gods and my Šamaš |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}szu-wa-ar-da-ta _ARAD2_-<ka>-ma | Thus Šuwardata, your servant: |
| 4 | 7(disz) u3 7(disz) mi-la ma-aq-ta#-ti | 7 and 7 half-cubits in length |
| 5 | a-na _giri3-mesz_ {disz}lugal-ri _en_-ia | to the feet of Lugalru, my lord |
| 6 | u3 ka-ba-tu-ma | and ..., and |
| 7 | u3 s,u2#-uh-ru-ma | and the ṣuḫru-tax |
| 8 | li-il5#-ma-ad {disz}lugal-ri | may he pluck up. Lugalru |
| 9 | _en_-ia a-na-ku 1(disz)-en i-ba-sza-ti | my lord, I am one. |
| 10 | yu-usz-szi-ra {disz}lugal-ri | Lugalri, |
| 11 | _en_-ia _erin2-mesz_ pi2-t,a2-ti | my lord, the captives |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ma-a'-da ma-gal | many, many |
| 2 | u3 yi-ki-im-ni | and yikimni |
| 3 | :" ia-s,i2-ni | Iasini |
| 4 | u3 yi-<il5>-ma-ad {disz}lugal-ri | and Ya’il-mad, Lugalru |
| 5 | _en_-ia | my lord |
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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