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EA 272 (P270965)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 272 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270965 |
| Museum no. | BM 029863(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 _dingir_-ia] | To Lugal, my lord, my god: |
| 2 | [um]-ma# {disz}szum# x [x x _lu2?_] | Thus (says) Šuma ... |
| 3 | _iri#_ na#-x-ha# [x] | The city Na...ha ... |
| 4 | [ip]-ri# sza# [_giri3-mesz_-ka] | the opening of your feet |
| 5 | [a]-na# _giri3# lugal# en_-[ia] | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 6 | [_dingir_-ia _{d}]utu_-[ia] | my god, my Shamash |
| 7 | [7(disz)]-szu# 7(disz)-[ta]-a-an [am-qu2]-ut# | 7 times 7 he will die. |
| 8 | _ARAD2#_ ki#-ti#-szu# sza#-[a] | servant of his family that |
| 9 | [_lugal] en#_-ia a-na-ku#-ma# | I am the king, my lord. |
| 10 | [yi]-di# _lugal_ be-li | The king, my lord, should know this. |
| 11 | [i-nu]-ma# ga-am-ru | when it was complete |
| 12 | [_lu2-mesz_] ha#-za-nu-ti7 | the mayors |
| 13 | [sza-a] i-na ma-ha-zi# _en#_-[ia] | who in the assembly of my lord |
| 14 | [u3] pa#-at,-ra-at | and shattered |
| 15 | [ka-li] _kur lugal_ | all the lands of the king |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _en#_-ia i-na | my lord in |
| 2 | [_lu2]-mesz sa-gaz_ | the men are killed |
| 3 | u3 yi-sza-al | and I asked |
| 4 | _lugal_ be-li | the king, my lord |
| 5 | _lu2_ ra-bi-s,a-szu# | a large man |
| 6 | a-na sza yu#-pa#-szu# | to the one who ... |
| 7 | i-na _kur lugal# en#_-ia# | in the land of the king, my lord |
| 8 | u3 yu-la-mi-da2 | and Yalamida |
| 9 | _lugal_ be-li _erin2-mesz_-szu _{gesz#}[gigir_]-szu | The king, my lord, his troops and his chariot |
| 10 | a-na ia-szi#-ia# | to me |
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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