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EA 042 (P271099)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 042 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271099 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01655 |
| 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 | ||
| 5 | lu-u2 szul-mu# a#-na# | Good health to you! |
| 6 | _lu2-mesz gal_-ka a-na _erin2-[mesz_-ka _ansze-kur-ra-mesz_-ka] | your great men to your troops and your horses |
| 7 | _{gesz}gigir-mesz_-ka u3 i-na# [lib3-bi _kur_-ka d lu-u2 szul-mu] | May your chariots and in your land be well. |
| 8 | _szesz_-ia ki-a-am szi-mi x [...] | My brother, according to the word ... |
| 9 | a-ba a-bi-ni isz-tu _kur#_ | Who is our father from the land? |
| 10 | [szu-me]-ma isz-tu _kur iri_ hur#-[ri] | Name it from the land Hurru. |
| 11 | [szum]-ma#? isz-tu _kur_-tim [...] | If from the land ... |
| 12 | i-la [...] | Ila ... |
| 13 | a-na pa2-ni [x x (x)] x x [...] | before ... ... |
| 14 | li-isz-al ma [...] | May he ask ... |
| 15 | u3 i-na-an-na t,up-pa2-ka sza [...] | And now your tablet of |
| 16 | szum-ka e-li szum-ia am-mi-ni# [...] | Your name above my name ... |
| 17 | u3 ma-an-nu sza pa2-a-na-a-ti [...] | And who ... the openings? |
| 18 | usz-bal-kat-ma par2-s,u2 ki-na-an-[na] | I carried off and the rites of truth |
| 19 | _szesz_-ia asz-szum-ma su2-lum-me-e [am-mi-nim] | my brother, because of the supplications that I have |
| 20 | ta-asz-pu-u-ra-a u3 szum-ma [...] | you wrote me, and if |
| 21 | am-mi-nim tu3-ra-ab-bi u3 a-[na-ku ki-ma] | Why do you turn away? And I, like |
| 22 | na#-pu-ul-tim ki-a-am ha-as-[sa3-ku] | “I am smitten in the same way, |
| 23 | [{disz}]lib#-szar {disz}ru-mi-in-x [...] | Līšar, Umin- |
| 24 | [asz]-t,ur# u3 szum-ka [...] | I wrote and your name |
| 25 | [x x] asz#-szi-id u3 [...] | ... I settled and ... |
| 26 | [x x] na la-a la x [...] | ... not ... ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [um-ma]-a _lu2-dub-sar_ {disz}ra-[...] | Thus (says) the scribe: |
| 2 | [x x] _disz_ ma la-a ti-_iz_-x [...] | ... says: "You should not ... .... |
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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