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EA 207 (P271051)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 207 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271051 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01593 |
| 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 en_-ia [_{d}utu_-ia] | To the king, my lord: my Šamaš |
| 2 | [qi2]-bi#-ma <um-ma> {disz}ip-te [... _ARAD2_]-ka | Speak, thus says Iptu, your servant. |
| 3 | [a]-na# _giri3-mesz en_-ia# [am-qut] | I fell at the feet of my lord. |
| 4 | isz#-te-me ka#-[li a-wa-te] _lugal#_ | He heard all the words of the king. |
| 5 | i-na# lib3-bi [t,up-pi2] | from the tablet |
| 6 | a-mur a-na-ku _ARAD2_ [ki-it-ti] | I am a loyal servant. |
| 7 | [sza-a] yu-ra-ad [_lugal_] | of Yarud the king. |
| 8 | [ma-an]-nu# ki-ma ia#-[szi _ARAD2_] | Who is like me, the slave? |
| 9 | [ki-ti] u3 i-nu-ma ta-aq#-[bu] | the earth and when you spoke |
| 10 | [mi-nu]-mi 2(disz)-szu [a]-wa-at# [x-(x)]-x | Two times a word ... |
| 11 | [yi]-iq#-bu _lu2_ ra-[bi-is,] _lugal_ | By the command of the great man, the king |
| 12 | x x sza a-mur# [a-na]-ku# | ... I have seen. |
| 13 | x _da-mesz#_ [...] | ... days ... |
| 14 | [u3] i-nu#-[ma ...] al | And when ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [{disz}]bi#-zu# [x] x x | Bizu |
| 2 | ki-ma _{d}utu_ u3 ki-ma | like Šamaš and like |
| 3 | al#-lu#-mi {disz}pu-hu-ur | Allumi, Puhur |
| 4 | la-a-[mi yi]-na-s,a-ar-ni | do not keep me alive! |
| 5 | ha-li#-iq#-mi3 gab2-bi | I destroyed all of it. |
| 6 | _iri#{ki}-[mesz] lugal_ isz-tu qa-ti#-[ia] | the cities of the king from my hand |
| 7 | [i-na] _{lu2#}gaz-mesz_ :" ha-[pi2?-ru] | among the brewers |
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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