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EA 006 (P271035)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 006 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271035 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00149 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| 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# {disz}ni-mu#-a#-re#-a# _lugal# [kur_ mi-is,-ri-i] | to Nimu-araya, king of the land of Miṣri |
| 2 | _szesz_-ia qi2-bi2#-[ma] | my brother, speak! |
| 3 | um-ma bur-ra-bu-ri-ia-asz _lugal kur#_ [ka-ra-an-du-ni-ia-asz] | Bur-raburiash, king of the land of Carchemish, says: |
| 4 | _szesz_-ka-ma a-na ia-szi szu-ul-mu# | Your brother, I am well. |
| 5 | a-na ka-sza _e2_-ka _dam-mesz_-ka _dumu-mesz_-[ka] | to you, your house, your wives, your sons |
| 6 | _kur_-ka _{lu2}gal-mesz_-ka _ansze-kur-ra-mesz#_-[ka] | your land, your magnates, your horses |
| 7 | _{gesz}gigir-mesz_-ka lu szu-ul-[mu] | May your chariots be well. |
| 8 | ki sza pa-na at-ta u3 a-bu-u2-[a] | as before you and my father |
| 9 | it-ti a-ha-mi-isz t,a-ba-tu#-[nu] | with each other good things |
| 10 | i-na-an-na a-na-ku u3 ka-sza it#-[ti a-ha-mi-isz lu t,a-ba-nu] | Now, I and your lady should be happy together. |
| 11 | i-na bi-ru-un-ni a-ma-tu-[um-ma] | in the middle of the word |
| 12 | sza-ni-tum-ma la iq-[qa-ab-bi] | another one did not say, |
| 13 | sza ha-asz-ha-ta i-na _kur_-ia szu-up#?-[ra-am-ma] | Send me a copy of the hashhatu in my land! |
| 14 | li-il-qu-ni-ik-ku | they must take. |
| 15 | u3 sza a-na-ku ha-asz-ha-ku i-na _kur_-ka | and that I have seized in your land |
| 16 | lu#-usz-pu-ra-am-ma li-il-qu-[ni] | Let him write to me, so they may take it. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [...] | |
| 2 | i#?-qi3-ip-pa2-ak#-[ku-ma] | they shall cut off, and |
| 3 | szu-up-ra-am-ma li-il-qu-[ni] | send me, so they may take it. |
| 4 | u3 a-na szu-ul-ma-ni-[ka ...] | and for your well-being . . |
| 5 | u3 DISZ [...] | and ... |
| 6 | [...] ul#-te#-bi#-la#-[ak-ku] | ... I have sent to you. |
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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