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EA 046 (P271135)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 046 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271135 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01694 |
| 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 | _{lu2#}ab#-ba#_-[e] | the scribe |
| 2 | u3 _{d}utu_-[szi be-li] | and her god, my lord |
| 3 | la tu-ma# | you do not know |
| 4 | sza a-na pa-[ni] | which before |
| 5 | kan2-na-am-ma# | sealed documents |
| 6 | sza _{d}utu_-szi be#-[li-ia] | of Šamaš, my lord |
| 7 | am-mi-nim pa-ni# | Why is my face turned away? |
| 8 | isz-tu _ugu_-hi-ia [...] | From me ... |
| 9 | _{lu2}ab-ba_-e-ia [...] | my elder brother |
| 10 | u3 pa-nu-szu-nu sza [...] | and their faces |
| 11 | a-na _ugu_-hi _{lu2}dumu# [kin_-ri] | against the messenger |
| 12 | u3 u2-nu-te [...] | and the furnishings |
| 13 | u2-sze-[bi-il ...] | he sent ... |
| 14 | {disz}szu [...] | Hand of |
| 15 | _sag-du#_ [...] | the head ... |
| 16 | be-li [...] | My lord |
| 17 | u3 _lu2#_ | and a man |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-na _lu2-mesz#_ | to the men |
| 2 | sza ir-te-[...] | who ... |
| 3 | u3 a-na pa-ni [...] | and before |
| 4 | u3 _{d}utu_-szi be-li# | and Šamaš my lord |
| 5 | _{d}utu_-szi be-li ki#-[ma pa-na-nu] | Šamaš, my lord, as before |
| 6 | _{lu2}ab-ba_-e-ia [...] | my elder brother |
| 7 | u3 _{d}utu_-szi be-li [i-na-an-na] | and Šamaš my lord now |
| 8 | a-na-ku _{lu2}ARAD2 {d}utu_-szi# [be-li-ia u3] | I, the servant of Šamaš my lord, and |
| 9 | a-na _{d}utu_-szi be-li#-[ia] | To Šamaš, my lord |
| 10 | u3 _{d}utu_-szi [be-li] | and Šamaš my lord |
| 11 | li-sze-bi-il# | may he send. |
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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