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EA 221 (P271203)
letter, Middle Babylonian, Akhetaten · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | EA 221 |
|---|---|
| ID | P271203 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00341 |
| 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 | _{d}utu_ isz-tu sza10-me-ma# | Šamaš from heaven |
| 3 | qi2-bi2-ma | speak! |
| 4 | um-ma {disz}wi-ik-ta-su2 | Thus Wiktasu |
| 5 | _ARAD2_-ka a-na _giri3-mesz lugal_-ri | your servant to the feet of the king |
| 6 | _en_-ia 7(disz)-szu szi-bi-ta-an | my lord, seven times |
| 7 | usz-he-hi-in | he smote. |
| 8 | isz-ti-me sza-pa-ar | together with a message |
| 9 | _lugal_-ri _en_-ia | the king, my lord |
| 10 | a-na ia-szi | to me |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-nu-ma | Herewith |
| 2 | a-na-s,a-ru | to guard, guard |
| 3 | _iri lugal_-ri _en_-ia | the royal city, my lord |
| 4 | a-di ti-ik-szu-du | as far as Tikšudu |
| 5 | a-wa-at _lugal_-ri | the word of the king |
| 6 | _en_-<ia> a-na ia-szi | your lord to me |
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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