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EA 012 (P271061)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271061 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01605 |
| 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}bi-li2-ia | To Biliya |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma um-ma | speak! Thus |
| 3 | _dumu-munus lugal_-ma | the daughter of the king |
| 4 | a-na ka-sza _{gesz}gigir_-ti#-ka# | to the lady of your chariot |
| 5 | a#?-mi#-lu#-ti#?-ka#? [u3 _e2_]-ka# | Your people(?) and your house |
| 6 | lu-u2 szu#-ul#-mu# [...] | May you be well |
| 7 | _dingir-mesz_ sza {disz}bur#-ra-bur!(SZA)-ia-asz# | the gods of Bur-rabutiyaš |
| 8 | it-ti-ka li-li-ku | May they go with you. |
| 9 | szal-mi-isz a-li-ik | I went safely. |
| 10 | u3 i-na sza-la-disz# | and in the third |
| 11 | 'i-ir-ma _e2_-ka a-mur [...] | “Go and see your house, . . |
| 12 | i-na pa#-[ni bi-li2-ia] | in the presence of my wife |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-ka-an-na# [...] | In the water ... |
| 2 | um-ma-a ul-tu4 gi#-[...] | Thus (says) the lady from the reed screen |
| 3 | _dumu_ szip-ri-ia s,i-ir-pa | son of my exalted messenger, |
| 4 | u2-sze-bi-la a-na | he sent to |
| 5 | _iri_ hal-ka u3 _e2_-ti-ka | the city of Halka and your house |
| 6 | lu-u2 <szu>-ul-mu | may it be well |
| 7 | it-ti li-bi-ka | with your heart |
| 8 | la# ta-da-bu-ub# [...] | Do not speak ... |
| 9 | u3 ia-a-szi it-ku-la# [...] | and for me he ate ... |
| 10 | te-te-en-da-ni | he has sworn. |
| 11 | _ARAD2_-ka {disz}ki-din-{d}iszkur | your servant Kidin-Adad. |
| 12 | i-sza-ak-ni | he shall place |
| 13 | a-na di-na-an | to the judge |
| 14 | be-li2-ia lu-ul-lik | my lord, I may go. |
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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