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EA 260 (P271027)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 260 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271027 |
| Museum no. | unknown |
| 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 gal_ be-li-ia | To the great king, my lord: |
| 2 | {disz}ba-lu-mi-ir iq-bi | Balumir said: |
| 3 | 7(disz)-szu u2 7(disz)-szu-ma | 7 times and 7 times |
| 4 | a-na 2(disz) _giri3 lugal gal_ | for 2 feet of the great king |
| 5 | _{d}utu_ a-na sza10-me im-qu2-ut | Šamaš fell into our hearts |
| 6 | a-na-ku ki-i15 i-qa-bi | I, as he says, |
| 7 | _lugal gal_ be-li | the great king, my lord |
| 8 | a-na-<ku> isz-me a-wa-ti | <I> heard the words |
| 9 | sza _lugal gal_ be-li-ia | of the great king, my lord |
| 10 | _{d}utu_ a-na sza10-me | Šamaš to heaven |
| 11 | _lugal gal_ i-de4 | the great king knows |
| 12 | a-na _ARAD2_-szu | to his servant |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 a-na-ku a-na _e2! [ki?_] | and I to the house |
| 2 | ti-in4-ni u2-sza-ab | he made her dwell. |
| 3 | u3 _lugal gal_ be-li-ia | and the great king, my lord |
| 4 | li-i-de4 a-na _ARAD2_-szu | to his servant |
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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