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EA 211 (P271094)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 211 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271094 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01648 |
| 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 | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}zi-it#-ri-ya-ra# | Thus Zitriya |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka 7(disz) u3 szi-ib#-i-ta#-an | your servant 7 times and Šibitan |
| 5 | u3 _uzu_ sza-sza-lu-ma u3 | and šašalum meat and |
| 6 | _uzu har_ a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_-ri | a ring of meat for the feet of the king |
| 7 | _en_-ia am-qut a-mur-mi | my lord, I fell, I saw |
| 8 | a-na-ku _ARAD2_ sza-a _lugal_-ri | I am a servant of the king. |
| 9 | _en_-ia a-na-ku u3 | my lord, I and |
| 10 | a-ba-at sza-a | the word that |
| 11 | sza#-par2 _lugal# [en_]-ia# | Send to the king, my lord! |
| 12 | [a]-na# _ARAD2_-szu# | to his servant |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | yi#-esz-te-mi# | I have heard. |
| 2 | _ARAD2 lugal_-ri a-na-ku# | I am a servant of the king. |
| 3 | _en_-ia a-mur _lugal_ | I saw my lord. The king |
| 4 | ki-i-ma _{d}utu_ isz-tu4 | like Šamaš from |
| 5 | _an-hi-a_ sza-mu-ma u3 | anḫītu-disease that and |
| 6 | la-a ni-la-u2 | we shall not bring. |
| 7 | e-zi-ib a-ba-at | Disregard the (formulation) of the prayer |
| 8 | _lugal_-ri _en_-ia | the king, my lord |
| 9 | u3 _{lu2}maszkim2_ | and the incantation priest |
| 10 | sza-a sza-ak-na-ta# | which are placed |
| 11 | _ugu_-ia | against me |
| left | ||
| 1 | ni-esz-mu a-na | we heard to |
| 2 | sza-a-szu | that |
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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