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EA 058 (P271152)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 058 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271152 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01716 |
| 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]-gal# be_-ia qi2-[bi2-ma] | Speak to the king, my lord: |
| 2 | [um-ma {disz}qa]-ti#-hu-ti-szu-pa _ARAD2#_-[ka-ma] | Thus Qatihutišupa, your servant: |
| 3 | [a-na] _giri3-mesz en_-ia am-qu2-[ut] | I fell at the feet of my lord. |
| 4 | [sza2]-ni-tu2 li-ma-ad i-nu-ma#-[mi] | another may he see. At that time |
| 5 | _lugal kur_ mi-ta-an-a-zi qa-[du _{gesz}ma2-mesz_] | king of the land of Mitanazi together with the boats |
| 6 | u3 qa-du _erin2-mesz kal-kib_ [...] | and together with the troops of the kalkub priesthood ... |
| 7 | ni#-isz-mi a-na mi-me-e [...] | “We will listen to whatever . . |
| 8 | pa#-la-ku u3 pal-ku [...] | I am frightened and I am terrified ... |
| 9 | [isz]-tu sza-szu [...] | From that ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | x tum# | ... tail |
| 2' | [x] sza#-am-ru-ri u3 [...] | ... šamarrû-plant and ... |
| 3' | [_dumu] ARAD2_-a-szi-ir#-ti [a]-na# _lugal# [en_-ia] | To the king, my lord: your servant Warad-Ashirti. |
| 4' | [u3] a-nu-ma ni-pu-usz# an-ni#-[ta] | And now we have done this. |
| 5' | [la]-ki#-szi# a-na ma-har# _lugal [en_-ia] | I am herewith sending her to the king, my lord. |
| 6' | [{disz}ab]-bi#-ha ia mi lu# | Abbiḫa, may he be |
| 7' | [...] ha#-di# u3 [...] | ... joy and ... |
| 8' | [...] a-na _lugal# [en_-ia] | ... to the king, my lord |
| 9' | [...] ma [...] | ... ... |
| 10' | [...] szi#-na# | ... their ... |
| 11' | [...] ia#-szi a-[na] | ... to me |
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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