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EA 265 (P271138)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 265 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271138 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01697 |
| 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 | um-ma {disz}ta-gi _ARAD2_-ka | Thus says Tagi, your servant: |
| 3 | a-na _giri3-mesz_ {disz}lugal _en_-ia | to the feet of Lugal, my lord |
| 4 | am-qut _lu2_-ia usz-szir-te | I fell upon my man. |
| 5 | qa#-du [_lu2]-mesz_ a-na da-gal | together with men, to the wide |
| 6 | pa#-ni# {disz}lugal#-ri _en_-ia | before Lugalri, my lord |
| 7 | [u3] usz#-szi-ir {disz}lugal-ru | and set up Lugalru |
| 8 | _en_-ia szu-lu-uh-ta | my lord, you are exalted. |
| 9 | i-na qa-at {disz}ta-ah-ma-ia | from the hand of Taḫmāya |
| 10 | a-na ia-szi u3 na-da-an# | to me and given. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [{disz}]ta#-ah-ma-ya | Tahmāya |
| 2 | _gal_ 1(disz)-en _ku3-sig17_ | the chief of 1 gold |
| 3 | u3 1(u) [2(disz)] ta#-pal _tug2 gada-mesz#_ | and 12 pairs of linen garments |
| 4 | [u3] a-na la-ma-ad | and to Lamassu |
| 5 | [{disz}]lugal# _en_-ia | 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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