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EA 309 (P271168)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 309 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271168 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01874 |
| 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# [_en_-ia] | To Lugal, my lord |
| 2 | _dingir-mesz_-ia [_{d}utu_-ia] | my gods, my Šamaš |
| 3 | _{d}utu_ sza# [isz-tu _an{sza10-me}_] | Šamaš, who from heaven |
| 4 | um-ma {disz}[...] | Thus PN |
| 5 | sza# [...] | of ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | x be ni# [x x] | ... ... |
| 2' | [x] ki# sza [...] | ... of ... |
| 3' | [a]-na# _ARAD2-mesz dumu_ [...] | to the servants of the son of ... |
| 4' | u3 1(disz) me# _ku3-babbar-[mesz_] | and 100 (shekels of) silver |
| 5' | [a]-na# _lugal en_-ia# | To the king, my lord: |
| 6' | 1(u) _ARAD2-mesz#_ szi [...] | 10 slaves ... |
| 7' | 1(u) _{munus}geme2-mesz_ [...] | 10 female slaves |
| 8' | u3 asz-szum-ma# | and because |
| 9' | la-ma-ad _lugal#_ | king of Lamassu |
| 10' | _en_-ia _{d}utu_ sza# | my lord, Šamaš, who |
| 11' | isz-tu _an#_ sa#-[me] | From the rising of the sky |
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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