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EA 338 (P271173)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 338 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271173 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01884 |
| 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#_ [be-li-ia] | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | um#-ma {disz}zi#-[... _ARAD2_-ka-ma] | Thus Zi-..., your servant: |
| 3 | a-na _giri3#-[mesz_] be#-[li-ia am-qut] | to the feet of my lord I fell. |
| 4 | [u3 x] bi# [...] | and ... ... |
| 5 | ba-a-zi [u3] ba# | Bazi and Ba |
| 6 | isz# x ka bi [...] | ... mouth ... |
| 7 | x-ma a-zi [...] | (Sum) ... ... (Akk) .... |
| 8 | x-tu# zu# [...] | ... knowing ... |
| 9 | [...] mi# [...] | ... ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [x] ma#-a ki# [...] | ..., saying: "Where ...." |
| 2 | x a [...] | ... ... |
| 3 | x nu# | ... not |
| 4 | [a]-mur# [...] | I saw ... |
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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