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EA 301 (P271008)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 301 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271008 |
| Museum no. | CM 04781 (12214) |
| 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 _{d}[utu_] | To the king, my lord, Shamash |
| 2 | sza isz-tu# _an{sza10-me-[i]}_ | which from the eclipse |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}szu-ba-an-di# | Thus Šubandi |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka-ma ip#-ri# sza | your servant, the scepter of |
| 5 | 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_-ka a-na 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_ | your 2 feet for 2 feet |
| 6 | _lugal en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia | the king, my lord, and my gods |
| 7 | _{d}utu_-ia _{d}utu_ sza | Šamaš-ia |
| 8 | isz-tu _an{sza10-me-i}_ | From heaven |
| 9 | 7(disz)-szu u3 7(disz)-ta-a-an | 7 times and 7 times |
| 10 | isz-ti-ha-hi-in ka-bat-tu4-ma | “I am frightened, I am afraid, and |
| 11 | u3 s,i-ru-ma# | and ṣiruma |
| 12 | {disz}ha-an-ia sza-par | Ḫaniya received. |
| 13 | _lugal_-ru _en_-ia _{d}utu_ | the king, my lord, Šamaš |
| 14 | isz-tu _an{sza10-me}_ a-na ia-szi | from heaven to me |
| 15 | u3 a-nu-ma isz-ti-me | And now with us |
| 16 | [a]-wa-at _lugal en_-ia | the word of the king, my lord |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [ma]-gal# ma-gal | large, large |
| 2 | u3 a-nu-ma na-ad-[na]-ti# | Now, the nadnatu |
| 3 | 5(disz) me _gu4-mesz_ u3 | 500 oxen and |
| 4 | 2(u) _dumu-munus-mesz_ u3 | 20 daughters and |
| 5 | asz-szum la-ma-ad | Because I am a slave |
| 6 | _lugal en_-ia _{d}utu_ | the king, my lord, Šamaš |
| 7 | sza isz-tu [_an{sza10]-me}_ | which from the eclipse |
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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