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EA 214 (P271063)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 214 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271063 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01607 |
| 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 _dingir_-ia] | To the king, my lord: my god. |
| 2 | [_{d}utu_-ia um-ma] | my Šamaš, saying thus: |
| 3 | [{disz}... _ARAD2_-ka] | , your servant |
| 4 | [a-na] _giri3#-mesz_ [be-li-ia _dingir_-ia] | to the feet of my lord, my god |
| 5 | _{d}utu_-ia 7(disz)-e-ti#-[szu] | Šamaš-ia 7 times |
| 6 | as#-hi-hi-en _lu2#-[maszkim_-ka] | Ashi-ḫīn, your treasurer |
| 7 | ka#-szi-id a-na# [x x] | I conquered ... |
| 8 | [x x] na _u4-kam#_ | ... na, day |
| 9 | [x]-sza#-at _iri{ki#}_ [sza] | ... of the city which |
| 10 | [_lugal en_]-ia yi [...] | The king, my lord, should not ... |
| 11 | [{disz}]zi#-it-ra#-ya#-[ra] | Zitreya |
| 12 | x ta [...] | ... ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | x a [...] | ... ... |
| 2' | mi#-im#-mi# [...] | All that |
| 3' | mi#-im#-mi# [...] | All that |
| 4' | a-na# na#-[a ...] | To ... ... |
| 5' | ni#-ri#-bu# [...] | The nirību priestess |
| 6' | _lu2_-lim sza# la# [yi-isz-mu] | a man who does not listen |
| 7' | a-wa-ti-_mesz_ {disz}lugal-[ri] | the words of Lugal-ri |
| 8' | _lu2#_ ar-nu# [i]-na# | a dead man in |
| 9' | _kur_-ka4# | the land of Ka. |
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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