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EA 223 (P271165)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 223 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271165 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01870 |
| 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 _{d}utu_ | To Lugalri, my lord, Šamaš |
| 2 | isz-tu# sa#-me#-ma | From the beginning |
| 3 | qi2-bi2#-ma# | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {disz}en-dar#-u2-ta# _ARAD2_-ka | Thus says Endaruta, your servant: |
| 5 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_-ri# be-li2-ia | to the feet of my lord |
| 6 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta-an usz-he-hi-en | 7 times 7 times he will be able to lift it. |
| 7 | gab2-bi mi-im-mi | all of it |
| 8 | sza yi-qa-bu | that I commanded |
| 9 | _lugal_-ru be-li2 | the king, my lord |
| 10 | u2-sze-szi-ru-mi | they made enter. |
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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