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EA 217 (P271060)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 217 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271060 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01604 |
| 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 | qi2#-bi2#-ma# | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}ah#-[...] | Thus (says) Ahu- |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka# a-na# _giri3-mesz_ | your servant to the feet |
| 5 | _lugal en#_-[ia _{d}]utu#_-[ia] | the king, my lord, my Shamash |
| 6 | 7(disz) u3 [7(disz)-ta]-an# | 7 and 7 each |
| 7 | am-qut isz#-ti-mi | I fell at my feet. |
| 8 | gab2-bi# a-wa-ti | all the words |
| 9 | _lugal# en#_-[ia u3] | the king, my lord, and |
| 10 | a-nu-ma# [...] | Herewith ... |
| 11 | x x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _lugal# [en_-ia] | the king, my lord |
| 2 | u3 mi-ia#-[mi] | and whatever |
| 3 | [a-na]-ku# [_ur-gi7_ u3 la-a] | I am a dog and not |
| 4 | isz#-ti-[mu a-na] | with me to |
| 5 | {disz}ma#-ya# _{lu2#}[maszkim]_ | Maya, the enforcer |
| 6 | _lugal# en#_-[ia] | the king, my lord |
| 7 | u3 yu#-szi#-ra#-am# | and Yaširam |
| 8 | _lugal# en#_-ia# _erin2#-mesz_ | the troops of the king, my lord |
| 9 | a-na# _kur_-szu ki-ma us,#-s,ur# | to his land like a trap |
| 10 | _lu2-mesz_ sza la-a ti#-[esz]-mu# | the men who do not know |
| 11 | a-na {disz}ma-ya szu-nu ti-[...] | to Maya they |
| 12 | gab2#-ba-nu | |
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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