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EA 321 (P271114)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 321 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271114 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01671 |
| 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 _en_-ia | To Lugal, my lord |
| 2 | _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | _{d}utu_ sza isz-tu | Šamaš, who from |
| 4 | _an{sza10-me}_ um#-ma | the heavens, thus |
| 5 | {disz}yi-id-ia _lu2_ | Byidia, the man |
| 6 | sza _iri_ asz-qa-lu-na | of the city Aškaluna |
| 7 | _ARAD2_-ka4# ip-ra sza | your servant, who |
| 8 | 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_-ka4 _lu2#_ qar#-tab#-bi# | 2 feet of a warrior |
| 9 | sza _ansze-kur-ra-mesz_-ka4 | of the horses |
| 10 | a-na 2(disz) _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia | for 2 feet of the king, my lord |
| 11 | _{d}utu_ sza isz-tu | Šamaš, who from |
| 12 | _an{sza10-me-i}_ 7(disz)-szu | the seven heavens |
| 13 | u 7(disz)-ta-a-an | and seven times |
| 14 | lu-u2 isz-ta-ha-hi-in | or he has seized |
| 15 | _{lu2}maszkim2_ :" ra-bi-is, | the guarantor |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sza _lugal en_-ia | of the king, my lord |
| 2 | sza isz-tap-ra-am | which he sent |
| 3 | _lugal en_-ia _{d}utu_ | the king, my lord, Šamaš |
| 4 | isz-tu _an{sza10-me}_ | from heaven |
| 5 | a-na ia-a-szi | to me |
| 6 | isz-te9-me | he heard. |
| 7 | a-wa-<<wa>>-_te-mesz#_-szu | his words |
| 8 | [ma]-gal ma-gal | large, large |
| 9 | [u] a-nu-ma a-na-s,a-ru | And now I am keeping watch |
| 10 | [asz]-ri _lugal_ sza | Ashur, king of |
| 11 | it#-ti-ia | with me |
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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