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EA 241 (P271121)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 241 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271121 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01678 |
| 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-ri _en_-ia | To Lugalri, my lord: |
| 2 | _dingir-mesz_-nu-ia _{d}utu_ qi2-bi2-ma | my gods, Šamaš, speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}ru-us,-ma-an-ia | thus Ruṣmaniya: |
| 4 | _lu2 iri_ sza-ru-na{ki} _ARAD2_-ka | the man of Šaruna, your servant. |
| 5 | _sahar-mesz_ sza _giri3-mesz_-ka | the earth of your feet |
| 6 | t,e4-t,i sza ka-ba2-szi-ka | News of your mouth: |
| 7 | _{gesz}giri3-<gub>_ sza _giri3-mesz en_-ia | the footstool of the feet of my lord |
| 8 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta-a-an | 7 times 7 times |
| 9 | a-mur-mi a-na-ku _ARAD2 lugal_ | I am a servant of the king. |
| 10 | isz-tu da-ri-ti | [From] eternity |
| 11 | _lugal_-ri _en_-ia ur-ru-du | The king, my lord, can be glad. |
| 12 | u3 a-nu-um-ma i-na-an#-na | Now then |
| 13 | _lugal_-ra _en_-ia | to the king, my lord |
| 14 | [...] x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [...] | |
| 2 | [sza] _lugal_-ri# [_en_]-ia# | of the king, my lord |
| 3 | sza-nu da#-ki#-i | another one, a dakî-demon |
| 4 | i-na# qa#-ti#-ia | in my hand |
| 5 | u3 a-na-ku# _ARAD2#_ ki-it-te# | and I am a true servant |
| 6 | sza _lugal_-ri _en_-ia | of the king, 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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