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EA 261 (P270960)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 261 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270960 |
| Museum no. | BM 029858(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 | _{d}utu_-ia qi2-bi2-ma | Šamaš, speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}da-asz-ru | Thus Dāšru |
| 4 | _ARAD2_ ki-it-te _lugal_ | servant of the king. |
| 5 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 6 | u _{d}utu_-<ia> 7(disz)-szu u 7(disz)-ta-a-an am-qut# | and Šamaš-ia> seven times and seven times I fell. |
| 7 | gab2-bi mi-im-mi3 | all of it |
| 8 | sza yi-iq-bu | that he ordered |
| 9 | _lugal en_-ia | the king, my lord |
| 10 | isz-te-nem-mu | they have heard. |
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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