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EA 328 (P271003)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 328 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271003 |
| Museum no. | CM 04775 (12193) |
| 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)
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# {disz}lugal _en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-[ia] | To Lugal, my lord, my gods |
| 2 | _{d}utu_-ia _{d}utu_ sza | Šamaš-ia |
| 3 | isz-tu _an{sza10-me-i}_ | From heaven |
| 4 | um-ma {disz}ia-ab-ni-il3 | Thus Yabni-il: |
| 5 | _lu2_ sza _iri_ la-ki-sza | the man of the city of Lakiša |
| 6 | _ARAD2_-ka ip-ri sza | your servant, an oath which |
| 7 | _uzu#_ 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_-ka | your 2 feet |
| 8 | _lu2_ qar-tab-bi sza | the warrior who |
| 9 | _ansze-kur-ra-mesz_-ka | your horses |
| 10 | a-na _uzu giri3-mesz lugal# en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 11 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu#_-ia# | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 12 | _{d}utu_ sza isz-tu _an{sza10-me#}_ | Šamaš, who from heaven |
| 13 | 7(disz)-szu u 7(disz)-ta-a-an | 7 times and 7 times |
| 14 | lu-u2 isz-ta-ha-hi-[in] | or they have sinned |
| 15 | _uzu#_ a-bat-tum-ma | meat of the abattu-festival |
| 16 | [u] _uzu#_ s,i-ru-ma | and the flesh is thick. |
| 17 | [u3] _lu2_ [ra]-bi-is, | and a man who is a fugitive |
| 18 | [sza] _lugal en#_-ia | of the king, my lord |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sza# isz-pu#-ra-am | which he wrote |
| 2 | _lugal# en_-ia# a-na ia#-[szi] | To me, the king, my lord: |
| 3 | a-nu-ma isz-te9-me | Now then, I have heard |
| 4 | gab2-bi a-wa-_te-mesz#_ | all the words |
| 5 | sza yi-iq-bi | of Ya’iqbu |
| 6 | {disz}ma-ia _{lu2}maszkim2! lugal#_ | Māya the king’s official |
| 7 | a-na ia-szi a-nu-ma | to me now |
| 8 | i-pu-szu gab2-ba | he built, on the other side |
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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