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EA 277 (P270966)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 277 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270966 |
| Museum no. | BM 029864(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 en_-ia] | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | [_dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia] | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | [um-ma {disz}...] | Thus (says) |
| 4 | _ARAD2#_-ka# [ip-ri sza _giri3]-mesz#_-ka | Your servant, the door of your feet |
| 5 | [a]-na _giri3#-mesz# [lugal en_-ia] | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 6 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}[utu_-ia] | my gods, my Shamash |
| 7 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2#-[a-an am]-qu2-ut | 7 times 7 I fall. |
| 8 | a-wa-at isz-tap#-par2 | a word has written |
| 9 | _lugal en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia | the king, my lord, and my gods |
| 10 | _{d}utu_-ia a-na ia-szi | my Šamaš to me |
| 11 | a-nu-ma i-szu-szi-ru-szu | Herewith they have brought him |
| 12 | a-na _lugal en_-ia | To the king, my lord: |
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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