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EA 320 (P271005)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 320 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271005 |
| Museum no. | CM 04777 (12218) |
| 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 _en_-ia | To Lugal, my lord |
| 2 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | _{d}utu_ sza isz#-tu | Šamaš, who from |
| 4 | _an{sza10-me-e}_ um-ma | the heavens, thus |
| 5 | {disz}yi-id-ia _lu2_ | Byidia, the man |
| 6 | sza _iri_ asz-qa-lu-na{ki} | of the city Ašqaluna |
| 7 | _ARAD2_-ka4 ip-ri sza | your servant, an excrement that |
| 8 | _uzu giri3-mesz_-ka4 _lu2_ | the man’s feet |
| 9 | kar3-tap-pi2 sza _ansze-kur-ra-mesz_-ka4 | the stallions of the horses |
| 10 | a-na _uzu giri3-mesz lugal_ | to the feet of the king |
| 11 | be-li2-ia 7(disz)-szu u | my lord 7 times and |
| 12 | 7(disz)-ta-a-an lu-u2 | 7 times either |
| 13 | isz-ta-ha-hi-in | he smote |
| 14 | ka-bat#-tum-ma u | a fever and |
| 15 | s,i#-ru-ma | are high, and |
| 16 | a-nu-ma a-na-s,a-ru# | Herewith I am keeping watch. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-szar _lugal_ sza it-ti#-ia# | where the king who with me |
| 2 | u mi-im-ma sza sza-par2 | and anything else that is sent |
| 3 | _lugal# en_-ia a-na ia-szi | the king, my lord, to me |
| 4 | isz-te9-mu-usz-szu | he has heard him |
| 5 | ma-gal ma-gal | It is great, it is great. |
| 6 | mi-ia-mi3 _lu2_ kal-bu | whatever the mighty man |
| 7 | u la-a yi-isz-mu | and he did not hear |
| 8 | a-na a-wa-ti7 _lugal en_-szu | to the words of the king, his lord |
| 9 | _dumu {d}utu_ | son of Šamaš |
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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