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EA 378 (P270971)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 378 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270971 |
| Museum no. | BM 050745(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# _dingir-mesz_-ia# | To the king, my lord: my gods. |
| 2 | [_{d}utu_-ia] _{d}utu_ sza isz-[tu] | my Šamaš, the Sun who from |
| 3 | [_an]{sza10-me-i}_ [um]-ma# {disz}ia-[pa-hi] | Anšamê, thus Ia-paḫi |
| 4 | _lu2#_ sza _iri_ gaz-ri{ki#} [ARAD2_-ka] ep#-ri sza _uzu-giri3-mesz_-[ka] | the man of the city of Gazru, your servant, the shepherd of your feet |
| 5 | a-na _uzu-giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 6 | _dingir-mesz_-ia# _{d}utu_-ia _{d}utu_ isz#-[tu] | my gods, my Šamaš, (and) the Sun from |
| 7 | _an{sza10-me-i}_ 7(disz)-szu u 7(disz)-ta-a-an | the seven times and seven times |
| 8 | lu-u2 isz-ta-ha#-hi-in | or he has seized |
| 9 | _uzu-ka_-bat-tum-ma u | fatty tissue and |
| 10 | _uzu-s,e_-ru-ma a-nu-ma | a lamb, but here |
| 11 | a#-na-s,a-ru-mi3 a-szar _lugal en_-ia | I keep watch wherever the king, my lord, |
| 12 | _{d#}utu_ isz-tu# _an{sza10-me-i}_ | Šamaš from heaven |
| 13 | sza# it-ti-ia# | who with me |
| 14 | u# gab2-bi mi3-im-mi3 sza | and the whole of everything that |
| 15 | sza#-par _lugal en_-ia | Send to the king, my lord! |
| 16 | a#-na ia-szi gab2-ba | to me, the whole |
| 17 | lu#-u2 ep-pu-szu-mi3 | may they do. |
| 18 | [u] ma#-an-nu-mi3 a-na-ku _ur-gi7_ | And who am I, the dog? |
| 19 | [u ma]-an-nu _e2#_-ia | and who in my house |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u# ma#-an-nu x [...]-ia# | And who ... my |
| 2 | u ma#-an-nu gab2-ba! | and anyone else |
| 3 | mi-im-me sza i#-ba#-asz-szi | whatever there is |
| 4 | a#-na ia-szi u a-wa-ti7-_mesz_ | to me and the words |
| 5 | _lugal en_-ia _{d}utu_ isz#-tu | The god Šamaš from |
| 6 | _an{sza10-me-i}_ u2-ul# | Anšamê will not |
| 7 | el2-te9-ne2-em-me | they are pure |
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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