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EA 052 (P270989)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 052 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270989 |
| Museum no. | CM 04759 (12197) + VAT 01596 |
| Collection | Cairo Museum, Cairo, Egypt; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| 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 kur_ mi-is,-ri{ki} | to the king of Mīṣri |
| 2 | um-ma {disz}a-ki-iz-zi _ARAD2_-ka-ma | Thus Akizi, your servant: |
| 3 | i-na 7(disz) a-na _giri3_ be#-li#-ia | from 7 to the feet of my lord |
| 4 | {d}iszkur-ia am-qut | I fall at the feet of my Adad. |
| 5 | a-mur# be#-li#-ia# t,up-pa2-te-szu | Look, my lord, at his tablets! |
| 6 | _e2-hi-a iri_ qat#-na{ki#} u3 a-na _szu_ | the temple of the city of Hatna and to the hand |
| 7 | be-li#-ia ma# [...] | My lord |
| 8 | [a-nu]-um#-ma [...]-_mesz#_-ka | Now, your ...s |
| 9 | [...] | |
| 10 | [...] | |
| 11 | [...] id#-du-uk#-ku | ... they will kill you. |
| 12 | [...] sza# be-li#-ia | ... of my lord |
| 13 | [...] | |
| 14 | [...] ta# a-na# | ... what to |
| 15 | [... i]-na-an-din | ... he will give. |
| 16 | [... na]-an-din-szu-nu | ... he gave them. |
| 17 | [...] a-bu-du-ni | ... his flood |
| 18 | [...] _lugal_ | ... king |
| 19 | [... na-an]-din#-szu-nu | ... he will give them. |
| 20 | [...] du#-x | ... ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] szir [...] | ... song ... |
| 3' | [...] a-li-ka# | ... of your city |
| 4' | [...] be-li-ia | ... my lord |
| 5' | [...] nu# | ... not |
| 6' | [... _kur_ ha]-at#-te{ki} | ... the land of Ḫatte |
| 7' | [...] ti isz-ri-iq-szu-nu | ... their ... |
| 8' | [...] ia i-na 2(disz)-szu | ... two times |
| 9' | [...] u2 us,-s,u2-nim#-[ma] | ... and they brought out, and |
| 10' | [... i]-na# _dub_-ia# | ... in my tablet |
| 11' | [x x] li# [...] | ... ... |
| 12' | [ah]-na-_kam_ 3(disz) _mu_ be-li-ia | 3 years of my lord's reign |
| 13' | e-nu-ma a-na# _en#_-ia at#-ta-nam [...] | Now, you are to my lord ....... |
| 14' | u3 _kaskal_-nu [x] sza# [u2] _{lu2-mesz}dumu-kin#_ | and the caravan ... of the messengers |
| 15' | la-a i-te a-na# _en#_-ia# | I do not know. To my lord |
| 16' | am-mu-li a-e x x u3 la i-te | “Why did you not ... |
| 17' | [i]-na# lib3-bi _kaskal_-ni#-[ia] li2#-li-ku-ni | During my campaign may they come to me. |
| 18' | al-kam-mi x x ia e-zi-ba-an-ni | Come, [..., e]rase me! |
| 19' | pu-ru x-nu la asz-ti-na _dingir_ | “Pūru ... not my father, god |
| 20' | a-na# x x be-li-ia | to my lord |
| 21' | [u3 a]-na# sza {disz}bi-ru#-a-za | and to Biruaza |
| 22' | _dumu#_-ka# la-a i-bat,-t,ar2 | your son shall not die |
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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