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EA 311 (P271054)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 311 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271054 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01597 |
| 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] | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | _{d}utu_-[ia] | my Šamaš |
| 3 | x x [...] | |
| 4 | [...] | |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [...] x | |
| 7 | [sza 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_]-ka | of your 2 feet |
| 8 | [_lu2_ ku8-si2] _ansze-kur-ra#-[mesz_-ka] | the man who the fish of your horses |
| 9 | [a-na 2(disz) _giri3-mesz] lugal_ | for 2 feet of the king |
| 10 | [_en_]-ia# _{d}[utu_] sza | my lord, Shamash, who |
| 11 | [isz]-tu# _an#_ [sa]-me | From the rising of the sky |
| 12 | [7(disz)]-szu# u3 7(disz)-ta-a-an | 7 times and 7 times |
| 13 | [isz-ta]-ha#-hi#-in# | he split. |
| 14 | [...] a-wa#-[ti] | ... words |
| 15 | [...]-_mesz#_ | ... ...s |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [...] x x | |
| 2 | a-na-s,a-ru _iri#[{ki}_] | the guard of the city |
| 3 | [_lugal_] sza# it-ti#-[ia] | the king who with me |
| 4 | [...] x x | |
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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