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EA 191 (P270990)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 191 |
|---|---|
| ID | P270990 |
| Museum no. | CM 04760 (12192) |
| 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}lugal-ma _en_-ia | To Lugal, my lord |
| 2 | um-ma {disz}ar-sa3-wu-ya _lu2 iri_ ru#-hi-za | Thus Arsawuya, man of the city of Rahiza: |
| 3 | a-na _giri3-mesz en_-ia am-qut | to the feet of my lord I fell. |
| 4 | _lugal en_-ia isz-pur-mi | the king, my lord, wrote to me: |
| 5 | a-na szu-szi-ri a-na pa-ni | in order to bring (them) into the presence |
| 6 | _erin2-mesz_ pi2-t,a2-at _lugal en_-ia | troops under the authority of the king, my lord |
| 7 | u3 a-na pa-ni _maszkim2-mesz_-szu | and before his witnesses |
| 8 | ma-ah-du-te | mighty |
| 9 | u3 i-ma-la-ku ba-li-mi3 | and he will go out without me. |
| 10 | ur-ru-ud _lugal en_-ia | In the future the king, my lord, |
| 11 | lu-uk-szu-da-am-mi3 | let me achieve. |
| 12 | _erin2-mesz_ pi2-t,a2-at _lugal [en_-ia] | troops under the authority of the king, my lord |
| 13 | u3 _maszkim2-mesz_-szu u3 a-na-ku# | and his witnesses, and I |
| 14 | szu-szi-ra-ku gab2-ba2 | I am the one who covers my chest. |
| 15 | [u3] ar-ki-szu-nu | and after them |
| 16 | [a]-al#-la-ak-me | I will go |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-szar na-ak-ru | where the enemy |
| 2 | _lugal en_-ia | the king, my lord |
| 3 | u3 ni-il5-qe2-szu-nu | and we took them. |
| 4 | i-na qa-at _lugal en_-nu ni#-din-me | We have given them under the authority of the king, our lord. |
| 5 | a-ia-bi-szu | his fathers |
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