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EA 226 (P271066)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 226 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271066 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01610 |
| 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}]lugal#-ri _en#_-[ia] | To Lugalri, my lord |
| 2 | qi2#-bi2-ma um-[ma] | speak! Thus |
| 3 | {disz}szi-ip-tu-ri-s,a# [_ARAD2_-ka] | Šiptur-iṣa, your servant |
| 4 | u3 ip-ri sza# [_giri3-mesz_]-ka | and the opening of your feet |
| 5 | a-na _giri3 lugal_-ri 7(disz) u3 7(disz) am-qut | I fell at the feet of the king 7 times and 7 times. |
| 6 | yi-di-mi _lugal_-ru _en_-ia | The king, my lord, knows this. |
| 7 | i-nu-ma szal-ma-at _iri{ki}_-szu# | when the whole of his city |
| 8 | u3 gab2#-bi a-wa-te-_mesz_ | and the rest of the words |
| 9 | sza-par _lugal_-ru _en_ a-na _ARAD2_-szu | The king's message to his servant: |
| 10 | isz-te-mu a-nu-ma | he heard; here |
| 11 | i-ri-szu :" ah-ri#-[szu] | irishu means "his father." |
| 12 | u3 i-ba-qa-ma# [la] | and he will weigh out, but not |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [u3] as,-s,u2-mi# | and I have seized |
| 2 | [i]-na _iri_-ia [u3] | in my city and |
| 3 | [u3] i-szu-szi-ru# | and he will acquire |
| 4 | [_a-mesz_] u3 _ninda-mesz_ u3 [x x]-_mesz#_ | water and bread and ...s |
| 5 | a-[na] pa-ni _kaskal-mesz_ | before the caravans |
| 6 | _lugal#_-ri _en_-ia | the king, my lord |
| 7 | [asz]-szum# isz-te-mu | Because they heard |
| 8 | gab2-bi a-wa-te-_mesz_ | all the words |
| 9 | {disz}lugal-ri _en_-ia | Lugalri, my lord |
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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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