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EA 271 (P271040)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271040 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01531 |
| 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}lugal _en_-ia | To Lugal, my lord |
| 2 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {disz}mil-ki-li _ARAD2_-ka | thus Milki-ili, your servant: |
| 5 | ep-ri sza _giri3-mesz_-ka | the foot of your feet |
| 6 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 7 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 8 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2-a-an am-qut | I fall seven times seven times. |
| 9 | yi-de _lugal_ be-li | The king, my lord, should know this. |
| 10 | i-nu-ma da-na-at | when he was strong |
| 11 | nu-kur2-tu _ugu_-ia | a curse against me |
| 12 | u3 _ugu_ {disz}szu-wa-ar-da-ta | and against Šuwardata |
| 13 | u3 yi-ki-im | and yikim |
| 14 | _lugal_ be-li _kur_-szu | The king, my lord, his land |
| 15 | isz-tu qa-at | From the hand of |
| 16 | _{lu2-mesz}sa-gaz-mesz_ | the slaughterers |
| 17 | szum#-ma i-ia-nu | If there is none |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | yu-usz-szi-ra | for Yaʾušši |
| 2 | _lugal_ be-li _{gesz}gigir-mesz_ | The king, my lord, the chariots |
| 3 | a-na la-qe2-nu la#-a | not taken. |
| 4 | ti7-ma-ha-s,u2-nu# _ARAD2-mesz_-nu | the Tigris, their servants |
| 5 | u3# sza-ni-tam | and another |
| 6 | yi#-sza-al | I asked. |
| 7 | _lugal#_ be-li# [x] | The king, my lord, ... |
| 8 | {disz}ia#-an#-ha-ma _ARAD2_-szu | Iān-hama, his servant |
| 9 | a-na sza yu-pa-szu | to the one of his yoke |
| 10 | i-na _kur_-szu | in his land |
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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