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EA 318 (P270959)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 318 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270959 |
| Museum no. | BM 029857(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_ be-li-[ia] | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | _{d}utu_ a-na sza-mi | Šamaš to heaven |
| 3 | {disz}{d}da_-ga-an-ta-ka#-[la] | Nabu-ganta-kala |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka iq-bi | your servant said: |
| 5 | 7(disz)-szu u3 7(disz)-szu-ma | 7 times and 7 times |
| 6 | a-na 2(disz) _giri3-mesz lugal gal_ | for 2 feet of the great king |
| 7 | be-li-ia im-qu2-ut | my lord fell, |
| 8 | sze-zi-ba-an-ni | Šēzibanni |
| 9 | isz-tu _kur2-mesz_ da-nu#-[ti] | from the mighty enemies |
| 10 | isz-tu _szu_ qa-ti | from the hand of |
| 11 | _{lu2-mesz}sa-gaz#-mesz#_ | the sag-priests |
| 12 | _lu2-mesz_ ha-ba-ti | the Habatian men |
| 13 | u3 _lu2-mesz_ szu!(SU)-ti-i | and those men |
| 14 | u3 sze-zi-ba-an-[ni] | and Šezibanni |
| 15 | _lugal gal_ be-li-ia# | the great king, my lord |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 a-mu#-ur#-mi# | and I will see |
| 2 | al#-<tap>-ra-ka4# sza#-ni#-tam# | I am writing to you, another one |
| 3 | u3 at-ta# _lugal# gal#_ | And you, great king |
| 4 | be-li-ia | my lord |
| 5 | tu-sze-ze-ba-an-ni# | you will give me. |
| 6 | u3 i-na-ba-at# | and he will weigh out |
| 7 | a-na _lugal gal#_ be-li-[ia] | To the great king, my lord: |
Sources & licences
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- 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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