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EA 199 (P271016)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 199 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271016 |
| Museum no. | CM 04789 (12234) |
| 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 _lugal en_-ia _{d}utu_-ia] | To the king, my lord: Shamash |
| 2 | [um-ma ...] | Thus ... |
| 3 | [_ARAD2_-ka-ma a]-na# _giri3-mesz_-pi2 | your servant, to the feet |
| 4 | [_en_-ia] am#-qut | my lord I fall. |
| 5 | a-bu#-mi _lugal {d}utu_-ia | my father, the king of Šamaš, |
| 6 | a-na ia-szi# u3 [...] | To me and . . |
| 7 | isz-te-mi an-na# [sza] | This is what |
| 8 | _lugal en_-li-ia [u3] | the king, my lord, and |
| 9 | usz#-szu-ur-te# | |
| 10 | [ma]-gal u3 [u2-bi-il] | large and he raised. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | gab2#-bi _kaskal-mesz#_ | all the caravans |
| 2 | _lugal en_ a-di | the king, my lord, until |
| 3 | _iri_ bu-us,-ru-ni# | the city Bushruni |
| 4 | u3 isz-te-mi-[ka] | and your word |
| 5 | a-mur-mi a-[na]-ku | I have seen. |
| 6 | _ARAD2#_-ka [...] | Your servant |
| 7 | x qa-ba#-ti#-du#-ka# | ... of your speech |
| 8 | [x x] _te-hi-a_ | ... rations |
| 9 | [_...-hi-a_ ...] | ... ... |
| 10 | [...] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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