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EA 218 (P271137)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 218 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271137 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01696 |
| 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 [_lugal en_-ia] | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | [qi2-bi2-ma] | speak! |
| 3 | [um-ma {disz}...] | Thus (says) |
| 4 | _{lu2#}iri_ [...] | the city ... |
| 5 | [a-na _giri3-mesz en_-ia] | to the feet of my lord |
| 6 | [7(disz)] u3 [7(disz)-ta-an] | 7 and 7 each |
| 7 | [am]-qut# esz#-[ti-mu] | I fall at my own feet. |
| 8 | gab2#-bi a-wa#-[ti] | the other side of the words |
| 9 | _lugal en#_-ia# [u3] | the king, my lord, and |
| 10 | [a]-nu-ma e-[szu-szi-ru] | Herewith they are eshushiru |
| 11 | sza# | of |
| 12 | _lugal# en#_-ia [u3] | the king, my lord, and |
| 13 | isz-ti-mu a-wa#-[ti] | With me the words |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | {disz}ma-ya ma#-gal ma#-[gal] | “Maya is great, he is great! |
| 2 | u3 yu-szi-ra-me | and Yaširame |
| 3 | _lugal en_-ia _erin2-mesz_ | the king, my lord, the troops |
| 4 | a-na _kur-mesz_-szu | to his lands |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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