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EA 213 (P270961)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 213 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270961 |
| Museum no. | BM 029859(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 | _dingir-mesz_-ia qi2-bi2-ma | say to my gods: |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}zi-it-ri-ya-ra | thus Zitriya: |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka ip-ri sza _giri3-mesz_-ka | your servant, the one who the foot-paths |
| 5 | u3 t,i4-it, sza ka-pa-szi-ka | and the rejoicing of your lips |
| 6 | a-na _giri3-mesz_ {disz}lugal _en_-ia | to the feet of Lugal, my lord |
| 7 | _{d}utu_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia 7(disz)-szu | my Šamaš, my gods, seven times |
| 8 | u3 7(disz)-ta-an am-qu2-ut | and seven times I fell. |
| 9 | u3 ka-ba-tu-ma u3 s,i-ru-ma# | and the kabtu-demon and the young woman |
| 10 | isz-te-mi sza-par {disz}lugal-ri | sent a message to Lugalri |
| 11 | _en_-ia _{d}utu_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia | my lord, my Šamaš, my gods |
| 12 | a-na _ARAD2_-szu a-nu-ma | to his servant now |
| 13 | szu#-sze-er-ti ki-ma | a šušertu-vessel like |
| 14 | sza# qa-be {disz}lugal-ru | of the command of Lugalru |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _en_-ia _{d}utu_-ia _dingir-mesz#_-ia# | my lord, my Šamaš, my gods |
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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