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EA 278 (P270954)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 278 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270954 |
| Museum no. | BM 029852(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}szu-wa-ar-da-ta | Thus Šuwardata: |
| 5 | _ARAD2_-ka ep-ri sza | your servant, the dowry of |
| 6 | _giri3-mesz_-ka a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_ | your feet to the feet of the king |
| 7 | _en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my lord, my gods, my Šamaš |
| 8 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2-a-an am-qut | I fall seven times seven times. |
| 9 | [a]-wa-at sza isz-tap-par2 | the word which he wrote |
| 10 | _lugal# en_-ia _{d}utu_ | the king, my lord, Šamaš |
| 11 | [isz]-tu# {d}sa-me a-na ia-szi | from Samu to me |
| 12 | [a-nu]-ma i-szu-szi-ru-szu | Now they have brought him |
| 13 | [a-na] _lugal# en_-ia | To the king, my lord: |
| 14 | [_{d}utu_] isz#-tu | Šamaš from |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [{d}]sa#_-me | Same |
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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