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EA 279 (P271093)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 279 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271093 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01647 |
| 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 | [_dingir-mesz_]-ia# _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | [qi2]-bi2#-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um#-ma# {disz}szu-wa-ar-da-ta | Thus Šuwardata |
| 5 | _ARAD2#_-ka ep#-ri# sza _giri3-mesz_-ka | Your servant, the one who your feet |
| 6 | a#-na# _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | to the feet of the king, my lord |
| 7 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 8 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2-a-an am-qu2-ut | I fall seven times seven times. |
| 9 | yi#-de _lugal#_ be2-li i-nu-ma | the king, my lord, when |
| 10 | [ga]-am#-ra#-at# _kur lugal_ | the totality of the king's land |
| 11 | [_en_]-ia# i-ni#-[i] it#-ta#-s,i2# | my lord has gone out. |
| 12 | [a]-na# _iri_ qe2-el-te# [u3] | to the city of Qelati and |
| 13 | [a]-na# mu#-hi _lu2-mesz_ sza#-[ru-ti] | against the noblemen |
| 14 | u3# yu-usz-szi-[ra _lugal_] | and Yashura, the king |
| 15 | [_erin2-mesz_] pi2-t,a2#-[ta] | troops entrusted |
| 16 | [yi]-isz#-[me _lugal en_-ia a-na] | The king, my lord, can be glad. |
| 17 | [_lu2]-mesz#-ha#_-za-nu#-ti#-[szu] | his mayors |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3# lu#-u2# ni-zi#-iz# | and may we stand. |
| 2 | _ugu#_-szu#-nu u3 lu#-[u2] | against them or |
| 3 | ni-t,u3-pu-ur | we did not release. |
| 4 | _lu2-mesz_ sza-ru-ta | the noblemen |
| 5 | isz-tu _kur lugal_-ri | from the land of the king |
| 6 | _en_-ia | my lord |
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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