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EA 158 (P270988)

letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE

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Designation	EA 158
ID	P270988
Museum no.	CM 04758 (12205)
Collection	Cairo Museum, Cairo, Egypt
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)

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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}tu3-u2-tu3 _en_-ia a-bi-ia#	To Tutu, my lord, my father
2	um-ma {disz}a-zi-ri _dumu_-ka _ARAD2_-ka-[ma]	Thus Aziri, your son, your servant:
3	a-na _giri3-mesz_ a-bi-ia am-qut	to the feet of my father I fell.
4	a-na muh-hi a-bi-ia lu-u2 szul-mu	May it be well with my father!
5	{disz}tu3-u2-tu3 a-nu-um-ma# at#-ta#-din	Tutu, herewith I have given
6	e-[ri-isz]-ti _lugal# en_-ia#	The king, my lord, should know this.
7	u3 mi-nu-um-ma e-ri-isz-tu3-szu2#	and what is his extispicy?
8	sza _lugal en_-ia li-isz-pur	of the king, my lord, let him write.
9	u3 a-na-ku a-na#-an-din	and I will give.
10	sza-ni-tam a-mur# at-ta i-na asz-ra-nu	Furthermore, I have seen you in the midst
11	a-bi-ia u3 mi-nu-um-me e-ri-isz-ti	my father, and whatever else
12	{disz}tu3-u2-tu3 a-bi-ia szu-pur	Tutu, my father, send!
13	u3 a-na-ku lu-u2 i#-din	and I should have given.
14	[a]-mur at-ta a-bi-ia u3 _en_-ia	Look, you, my father and my lord
15	[u3] a-na-ku _dumu_-ka _kur-mesz_ a-mu-ri	and I, your son, the mountains I saw
16	[_kur]-mesz#_-ka u3 _e2_-ia _e2_-ka	your lands and my house, your house
17	[u3] mi-nu-um-ma e-ri-isz-tu3-ka	and whatever your extispicy
18	[szu-up]-ra-am u3 a-na-ku	send, and I
19	[gab2]-ba2# e-ri-isz-ti-ka lu-u2 ad-din	I have given the full price of your dowry.
20	[u3 a]-mur# at-ta a-na pa-ni	And you, before
21	[_lugal en_]-ia asz-ba2-ta	where the king, my lord, resides
22	[as]-surx(AMAR)#-ri# _lu2-mesz_ sa-ru-tu3	Assurri, the prisoners of war
23	[a-wa]-ta#? za-pu-ur-ta	from a word of slander
24	[a-na muh?]-hi#?-ia a-na pa-ni [...]	to me, in the presence of
25	[_lugal en_]-ia# iq#-bu#-nim	The king, my lord, said:
26	[u3] at-ta la tu3-wa-asz-szar-szu-nu	And you will not release them.
reverse
1	[u3? a]-mur at-ta a-na pa-ni	and I have seen you before
2	[_lugal] en_-ia ki#-i#-ma# a#-ia-szi	The king, my lord, should act as follows:
3	[...] asz-ba2?-ta [...]	... from the abode(?)
4	[u3?] a-wa-te-_mesz_ za-pu-ur-ta	and slanderous words
5	[a]-na# muh-hi-ia la tu3-wa-asz-szar	Do not turn away from me!
6	u3# a-na-ku _ARAD2_-du sza _lugal en_-ia	and I am the servant of the king, my lord.
7	[u3] isz-tu a-wa-_te-mesz lugal en_-ia	and from the words of the king, my lord
8	[u3] isz-tu a-wa-te-_mesz_ {disz}tu3-u2-tu3 a-bi-ia	and from the words of Tutu my father
9	[la a]-pa#-at,-t,a2-ar a-di da2-ri-isz	I shall not be negligent, forever.
10	u3 szum#?-ma#? _lugal en_-ia la i-ra-am-an-ni	and if the king, my lord, does not love me
11	u3 i-ze2-i-ra-an-ni	and he will forgive me.
12	u3 a-na-ku mi-na-am lu-u2 aq-bi	And what should I say?

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