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EA 072 (P271148)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 072 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271148 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01712 |
| 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 | [... lu-u2] i-de _lugal_-ru | ... may he know, a king |
| 2 | [_en_-li i-nu-ma _kal]-ga_ nu-kur2-tu4 | my lord, when he was mighty and unrivalled |
| 3 | [sza-a {disz}ARAD2-a-szi-ir]-ta# _ugu_-ia | of Abdi-Aširta against me |
| 4 | [...] ki-ma _iri_ ir-qa#-ta# | ... like a city he will take. |
| 5 | [...] u3 _iri_ ar-[da-ta] | ... and the city of Ardata |
| 6 | [...] a-na sza-a-szu | ... to him |
| 7 | [...] u3 _iri_ gub-la | ... and the city of Gubla |
| 8 | [... _iri_] am-pi2 u3 | ... the city of Ampi and |
| 9 | [usz-szi-ra ...] qa-du _erin2-mesz_ pi2#-[t,a2-ti] | ... together with the prisoners of war |
| 10 | [u3 mi-na i-pu-szu-na] a-na-ku i-na | and what have I done? |
| 11 | [i-de-ni-ia ...] ni en [...] | who judges me ... lord |
| 12 | [...] sza#-ni-tam [...] | ... another ... |
| 13 | [...] ti-esz [...] | ... together ... |
| 14 | [...] ka [...] | ... mouth ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...]-_mesz_ [...] | ... ... |
| 2' | [...] usz-szi-[ra] | ... he brought in. |
| 3' | [_lugal_-ru 3(u) ta pal _ansze]-kur#-ra-mesz_ [qa-du] _{gesz}gigir_ | the king 30 pairs of horses together with the chariot |
| 4' | [...] ra ki [...] | ... ... |
| 5' | [...] _iri_ am-pi2 | ... the city Ampi |
| 6' | [... _erin2-mesz_ pi2]-t,a2#-ti | ... of the prisoners of war |
| 7' | [... _iri_ s,u-mu]-ri{ki} | ... the city of Ṣumurrum |
| 8' | [... _lu2]-mesz# gaz#-mesz_ | ... the men are killed. |
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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