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EA 067 (P271049)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 067 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271049 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01591 |
| 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 _lugal {d}utu_-szi be-li2-ia qi2-bi2-ma um-ma] | Speak to the king, Šamaš, my lord! Thus says |
| 2' | [... _ARAD2_-ka-ma a]-na# _giri3#-[mesz_ be-li2-ia] | ... your servant to the feet of my lord |
| 3' | [7(disz) u3 7(disz) am-qu2-ut _{d}utu_-szi] be#-li2-ia# | 7 and 7 I fall at the feet of Šamaš my lord |
| 4' | [... _{d}]utu#_-szi be-li2-ia# | ... of Shamash, my lord |
| 5' | [... _iri_] s,u-mu-ri{ki#} | ... the city of Ṣumurrum |
| 6' | [...] a-szi-ib i-na# | ... dwells in |
| 7' | [...]-_mesz_-szu qa-du _{gesz#}[gigir-mesz_-szu] | his ... together with his chariots |
| 8' | [...] al#-mi | ... I call out. |
| 9' | [_iri_] s,u#-mu-_ri-[ki] iri#{ki#} {d}[utu_]-szi# be-li2#-ia | The city Ṣumuri, the city of Shamash-ši, my lord |
| 10' | [u3 _{d}]utu#_{ki} lu-u2 i-[di]-mi _saga_ gab2#-bu _lu2#-mesz kur_ mi#-[is,-ri] | and Šamaš he knows. All the good people of the land of Miṣri |
| 11' | [sza] asz#-bu-nim i-na _iri_ s,u-mu-ri{ki} _iri{ki} {d}utu#_-[szi be-li2-ia] | who dwell in Ṣumurru, the city of Šamašši, my lord |
| 12' | [it]-ta#-zu-nim u3 i-na _kur-ti4_-ia asz-bu-nim | and in my land I dwelled. |
| 13' | [be]-li2# u3 e-te-pu-usz ma#-mi-ta | My lord, and I have done something against you. |
| 14' | [it]-ti _lu2_ sza# _iri_ ku-ub-li{ki} u3 it _lu2#_ sza# [_iri_] | with the man of the city of Kubli, and with a man of that city |
| 15' | [u3] gab2-bu _lu2-mesz_ hal-zu-uh-lu-ti sza _kur_-ka [u3] | and all the captives of your land and |
| 16' | it-ti-szu it,-bu-nim be-li2 i-na-an-na szu-u2-tu2 ki#-[ma] | My lord, now that is like |
| 17' | [_lu2] sa-gaz#-za-mesz ur_ hal-qu2 u3 is,-ba-at | The sagazzû-demons, the dog, were killed and seized. |
| 18' | [_iri_ s,u]-mu#-ri#{ki} _{d}utu_-szi be-li2-ia | the city Ṣumurru for Šamašši my lord |
| 19' | [...] ni# _dingir_-lum | ... a god's aura |
| 20' | [...] _{d}utu_-szi be-li2-ia# | ... of Šamaš, my lord |
| 21' | [... ub]-la#-mi | ... he brought |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | szi-[...] | Ši- |
| 4' | il#-[...] | Il- |
| 5' | [...] | |
| 6' | im#-[...] | ... ... |
| 7' | sza# [...] | of ... |
| 8' | asz-[...] | Aš- |
| 9' | a-x-[...] | A-... |
| 10' | u3 [...] | and ... |
| 11' | sza [...] | of ... |
| 12' | [...] | |
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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