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EA 273 (P271128)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 273 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271128 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01686 |
| 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 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {munus}_nin-ur-mah-mesz_ | Thus Ninurmaḫ |
| 5 | _geme2_-ka a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_ | your slave woman to the feet of the king |
| 6 | _en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia _{d}utu_-ia | my lord, my gods, my Šamaš |
| 7 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2-a-an am-qu2-ut | I fall seven times seven times. |
| 8 | yi-di _lugal_ be-li | The king, my lord, knows that |
| 9 | i-nu-ma nu-kur-tu | when a nukurtu |
| 10 | i-pu-sza-at i-na | he built. In |
| 11 | _kur_ u3 ga-am-ra-at | the land and the whole |
| 12 | _kur lugal en_-ia | the land of the king, my lord |
| 13 | i-na pa-t,a2-ri i-na | in the open, in |
| 14 | _lu2-mesz sa-gaz-mesz_ | the criminals |
| 15 | u3 yi-di _lugal_ be-li | and the advice of the king, my lord |
| 16 | a-na _kur_-szu u3 yi-[di] | to his land and the territory |
| 17 | _lugal#_ be-li i-nu-ma# | The king, my lord, should know that |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sza-ap-ru | šapru (means) |
| 2 | _lu2-mesz sa-gaz-mesz_ | the criminals |
| 3 | a-na _iri_ a-ia-lu-na | to the city of Ayyaluna |
| 4 | u3 a-na _iri_ s,a-ar-ha | and to the city of Ṣarha |
| 5 | u3 u2-ba-an la-a | and he will not raise a claim. |
| 6 | mi#-ih-s,u2 2(disz) _dumu-mesz_ | missing: 2 sons |
| 7 | {disz}mil-ki-li u3 | Milkili and |
| 8 | yi#-di _lugal_ be-li | The king, my lord, should know this. |
| 9 | ip#-sza an-na | “Ipša An |
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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