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EA 153 (P271025)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 153 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271025 |
| Museum no. | MMA 24.2.12 |
| Collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA |
| 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_ li2-ia | to the king, my lord: |
| 2 | um#-ma {disz}ia-bi-_lugal ARAD2_-ka | Thus says Ibbi-šarri, your servant: |
| 3 | 7(disz) u 7(disz) a-na _giri3-mesz_-ka am-qut | 7 and 7 to your feet I fell. |
| 4 | sza iq#-bi _lugal_ be-li-ia | As to what the king, my lord, said: |
| 5 | szu-[u3] e-te-pu-usz | he has done |
| 6 | pal-ha-at gab2-bi | the one who is afraid of me, |
| 7 | _kur_-ti isz-tu pa-ni | the land from before |
| 8 | _erin2-mesz lugal en_-li2-ia | the troops of the king, my lord |
| 9 | su-hi-iz-ti _lu2-mesz_-ia | my men |
| 10 | _{gesz}ma2-mesz_ a-na pa-ni | boats before |
| 11 | _erin2-mesz lugal_ be-li-ia | the troops of the king, my lord |
| 12 | u3 sza la isz-te-me2 | and one who has not heard |
| 13 | ia-nu _e2_-szu ia-nu | whether his house or |
| 14 | bal-t,a2-szu an-nu-u2 | This is his life. |
| 15 | a-na-an-s,ar# _iri#_ | I will guard the city. |
| 16 | _lugal_ be-[li-ia] | the king, my lord |
| 17 | [u3] | and |
| 18 | mu-hi _lugal_ [be-li-ia] | to the king, my lord |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-na _ARAD2_-szu sza | to his servant who |
| 2 | it-ti-szu | with him |
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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