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EA 047 (P271134)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271134 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01693 |
| 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' | [...] ni# | ... fear |
| 2' | [...] _kur#{ki}_-ka | ... of your land |
| 3' | [...] ka# _{lu2}ab-ba-mesz_-ia | ... the mouth of my elders |
| 4' | [a-na _lu2-ab-ba]-mesz_-ka _ARAD2-mesz_-ta i-pu-szu | to your scribes, your servants, they performed. |
| 5' | [u3 i]-na#-an-na a-na-ku a-na _lugal {d}utu_-szi | And now I to the king, her god |
| 6' | [_en_]-ia# lu-u2 _ARAD2-mesz_-ma | my lord, may they be servants. |
| 7' | [sza-ni]-tub2# _{lu2}dumu-kin_-ri-ia a-na _ugu_-hi _en_-ia | another messenger of mine to my lord |
| 8' | [lu-u2 asz-ta]-par# u3 _en_-ia la isz-al-szu | I sent, but my lord did not ask him. |
| 9' | [u3 a-na] gab#-bi _{lu2}dumu-kin_-ri sza _lugal-e-ne_ | and to all the messengers of the kings |
| 10' | [lu-u2 ta]-na#-an-din t,up-pa-ka ta-szap-par | You should give it, and you will send your tablet. |
| 11' | [u3 _lu2] dumu-kin_-ri-ka it-ti-szu-nu | and your messengers with them |
| 12' | [ta-szap]-par# u3 a-na sza ia-a-szi | you will send, and to me |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [u3 a-na] _dumu#-kin_-ri-ia t,up-pa#-ka# | and to my messenger your tablet |
| 2 | [la-a ta-ad]-din u3 _{lu2}dumu-kin_-ri-ka | you did not give, and your messenger |
| 3 | [it-ti-szu]-ma# la#-a ta-asz2-pur | you did not send with him. |
| 4 | [... ki]-ma ki#-it _uzu_ lib3-bi-ia | ... like the weight of my heart's fat |
| 5 | [sza-ni-tu2 am]-mi#-ni# ti-sze-im-me | Another matter: why do you hear it? |
| 6 | [a-na sza a]-wa-te-_mesz_ sza-a {disz}ha-an-ia | concerning the words of Haniya |
| 7 | [...] yi#-sza#-al-li-i' | ... I will fill. |
| 8 | [_lugal {d}utu_-szi] _en_-ia be-li mi-na-a | The king, Šamaš, my lord, what |
| 9 | [... {disz}ha]-an#-ia szul-ma-an-szu | ... Haniya his greeting-gift |
| 10 | [...] u3 szum-ma | ... and if |
| 11 | [... a]-nu#-ma | ... now |
| 12 | [...] _en#_-ia | ... my lord |
| 13 | [...] sze# | ... barley |
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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