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EA 291 (P271149)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 291 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271149 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01713 |
| 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#-ku# _lu2#_ | I, the man |
| 2' | x a [...] | ... ... |
| 3' | [u3] na-[...] | and ... |
| 4' | li#-isz-me [...] | May he hear ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a#-na ia#-a-[szi] | to me |
| 2 | u3 te#-im#-ha [...] | and a tēmḫa ritual . |
| 3 | 2(disz)-na _erin2#-mesz_-[ka] | 2 men of yours |
| 4 | ti-ba#-ah# | Tibah |
| 5 | ga#-ti# | milk |
| 6 | _lu2#-mesz#_ | the men |
| 7 | szum-ma# [...] | If ... |
| 8 | [a]-na _be#_-[ia] | To my father |
| 9 | qa [...] | [x] qa, |
| 10 | [...] | |
| 11 | [...] | |
| left | ||
| 1 | lu#-ma-sze#-[ir] | let me bring to an end |
| 2 | [...] | |
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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