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EA 255 (P271195)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 255 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271195 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00333 |
| 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_-ri _en_-[ia] | To the king, my lord: |
| 2 | u3 _{d}utu_-ia qi2-bi2-[ma] | and my Šamaš speak! |
| 3 | um-ma {disz}mu-ut-ba-a'2-lu4# | Thus (says) Mutba'alu |
| 4 | _ARAD2_-ka _sahar_ sza 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_-[ka] | your servant, the earth of your two feet |
| 5 | t,i-t,u3 sza ka-ba2-szi-ka | “The rejoicing of your mouth, |
| 6 | a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_-ri _en_-ia | to the king, my lord |
| 7 | 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta-a-an am-qut | 7 times 7 I fell. |
| 8 | _lugal en_-li sza-par2 a-na mu-hi-ia# {disz}ha-a-ia | The king, my lord, sent a message to me: Haya |
| 9 | a-na qa-bi _kaskal_-ra-_ni-hi-a_ | at the beginning of the campaign |
| 10 | _kur_ ha-na-gal9-bat an-nu-u2 | this land of Hanagalbat |
| 11 | u2-wa-sze-ru-na u3 usz-sze-ru-szi | they shall remove her and they shall make her free. |
| 12 | mi-ia-ti a-na-ku u3 la-a | I myself and not |
| 13 | u2-wa-sze-ru _kaskal_-ra-_ni-hi-a_ | they will bring. The caravans |
| 14 | _lugal_-ri _en_-ia a-mur | I have seen the king, my lord. |
| 15 | {disz}[la]-ab#-a-ia a-bi-ia | Labaya, my father |
| 16 | [yu-ra]-du# _lugal_-ra _en_-szu | Yoradu, the king, his lord |
| 17 | [u3 szu-ut] yu-wa-sze-ru | and that of Yawašeru |
| 18 | [ka-li _kaskal_]-ra-_ni-hi-a_ | all the caravans |
| 19 | [sza yu-wa]-sze#-ru _lugal_-ru | of Yawashiru, the king. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-na _kur_ ha-na-gal-bat | to Hanagalbat |
| 2 | a-na _kur_ ka-ra-du-ni-ia-asz | to Karaduniaš |
| 3 | li-wa-sze-ra _lugal_-ru | may he become a king. |
| 4 | _en_-ia _kaskal_-ra-_na-hi-a_ | my lord, the caravans |
| 5 | a-na-ku ub-ba-lu-szi | I will bring her. |
| 6 | ki-ma ma-disz na-as,-ra-at | as much as is needed, |
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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