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EA 232 (P271086)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 232 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271086 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01640 |
| 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_-ri _en_-ia _{d}utu_ isz-tu sza10-me-e | To the king, my lord, Šamaš from heaven |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}su2-ra-ta | thus Surata: |
| 4 | _lu2 iri_ ak-ka _ARAD2_ sza _lugal_-ri | the man of Akka, servant of the king |
| 5 | ip-ru sza _giri3-mesz_-szu u3 qa-qa-ru sza ka-ba-szi-szu | the opening of his feet and the ground of his chest |
| 6 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 7 | _{d}utu_ isz-tu sza-me-e | Šamaš from heaven |
| 8 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta-a-an | 7 times 7 times |
| 9 | usz-he-hi-in | he smote. |
| 10 | i-na pa-an-te-e :" ba-at,-nu-ma | in the presence of : “It is shaṭnû-disease.’ |
| 11 | u3 s,i-ru-ma :" s,u2-u'2-ru-ma | and ṣirûma (means) |
| 12 | ma-an-nu _lu2_-lu4 | who the man |
| 13 | u3 sza-par2 _lugal_ | and the king’s command |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _en_-szu a-na sza-[szu] | his lord to him |
| 2 | u3 la-a yi-isz-mu#-mi | and did not hear |
| 3 | ki-ma sza yu-us,-s,i2 | like that of a yuṣṣu |
| 4 | isz-tu pi2-i | From the mouth |
| 5 | _{d}utu_ isz-tu | Šamaš from |
| 6 | sza10-me-e ki-na-an-na | In our midst, |
| 7 | yu-up-pa-szu-mi | a thorny tree |
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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