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EA 156 (P271199)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 156 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271199 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00337 |
| 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 en_-ia _dingir_-ia {d}utux(ERIM)#-ia | To the king, my lord: my god and my army. |
| 2 | um-ma {disz}a-zi-ri _ARAD2_-ka-ma | Thus Aziri, your servant: |
| 3 | 7(disz)-szu u 7(disz)-szu a-na _giri3-mesz-en_-ia am-qut | 7 and 7 to my feet I fell. |
| 4 | a-nu-um-ma mi-ri-isz-tum | Herewith, Irishtum |
| 5 | sza e-te-er-ri-isz | that he has returned |
| 6 | {d}utux(ERIM) _en_-ia a-na-ku _ARAD2_-ka# | Šamaš, my lord, am I your servant. |
| 7 | a-di da2-ri-i-ti | forever. |
| 8 | u3 _dumu-mesz_-ia _ARAD2_-ka# | and my sons, your servant |
| 9 | a-nu-um-ma 2(disz) _{lu2}ARAD2#?-[mesz?_] | Herewith, two slaves |
| 10 | at-ta-din _dumu-mesz_-[ia?] | I gave to my sons |
| 11 | u3 li-ip-pu-szu#?-[nim? gab2?-bi?] | and all of them(?) |
| 12 | sza i-qab2-bi _lugal#? [en?_-ia] | which the king, my lord |
| 13 | u3 li-wa-asz-szar-[an?-ni? _lugal?_] | and Liwaššaranni the king(?) |
| 14 | i-na _kur_ a-mur-ri# | in the land Amurru |
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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