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EA 178 (P271120)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 178 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271120 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01677 |
| 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] _lu2#-gal en_-ia | to the chief of my lord |
| 2 | [um]-ma# hi-bi-ya _ARAD2_-ka | Thus says hibiya, your servant: |
| 3 | [a]-na# _giri3_-pi2 _en_-ia am-qu2-ut | I fall at the feet of my lord. |
| 4 | u3 a-nu-ma ne2-e-ta-li2 i-na _kur-mesz_ | And now, the nētalî-demons in the mountains |
| 5 | _iri#_ ya-ta-ni | the city Yatani |
| 6 | [ne2]-e-na-s,a-ar-szu | we shall keep him safe. |
| 7 | [a]-di# ka4-sza-du | up to Kašadu |
| 8 | _lu2-gal en_-ia | the chief of my lord |
| 9 | u3 a-nu-ma da-na-at | And now, she is strong. |
| 10 | nu-kur-tu4 _ugu iri-didli-hi-a_ | a nukurtu-gift against the city of Didlihia |
| 11 | _lu2-gal en_-ia | the chief of my lord |
| 12 | sza-ni-tam a-wa-tu2 | Another matter: |
| 13 | [isz]-te-mi ki-[ma] | he heard that |
| 14 | [sza qa]-bi# _lugal# [en_]-ia# | As to what the king, my lord, commands: |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [...] | |
| 2 | [...] | |
| 3 | [...] | |
| 4 | [...] me# | ... the divine powers |
| 5 | [...] sze#-[u2] | ... barley |
| 6 | [u3]-ra#-ad# isz-tu | he will measure out. From |
| 7 | _kur_ a-mur-ri u3 yu-qa-bu | the land Amurru and Yaqabu |
| 8 | a-na ia-szi | to me |
| 9 | ma-a-di# _sze#-mesz_-mi | the land of my barley |
| 10 | a-na [_kur_ a]-mur#-ri | to Amurru. |
| 11 | [a-di ka]-sza#-ad _lu2-gal_ | until the arrival of the king |
| 12 | [isz-tu] _lugal# en_-ia | After the king, my lord, |
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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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