Amarna letter EA 243

Amarna letter EA 288, from Abdi-Hepa ṭ the king of Jerusalem .

Amarna letter EA 243 is a letter from Biridija , king of Megiddo to the Pharaoh . It is written in Akkadian cuneiform on a clay tablet and is one of the Amarna letters from the palace archives of Pharaoh Akhenaten . This was located in the newly founded capital Achet-Aton ("Horizon of Aton"), today's Tell el-Amarna . Today the plaque is in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin , inventory number VAT 1669.

Akkadian text

Front side:
1. a-na šarri (LUGAL) ^ri b [êli (EN) -ia]
2. ù ^d šamši (UTU) -ia ui [lāni (DINGIR ^meš ) -ia qí-b] í-ma
3. um -ma ^m bi-ri-di [-ja]
4. arad (ÁRAD) ki-it-ti š [a šarri (LUGAL) ^ri ]
5. a-na šêpē (GÌRI ^meš ) šarri (LUGAL) ^ri bêli (EN ) [- ia]
6. u ^d šamši (UTU) -ia u ilāni (DINGIR ^meš ) -ia
7. 7 ^(m) -šu ù 7 ^(m) -ta-a-an a [mq] ut
8. iš -te-me a-wa-te ^meš
9. šarri (LUGAL) ^ri bêli (EN) -ia u ^d šamši (UTU) -ia
10. ù a-nu-um-ma i-na-ṣa-r [u ]
11. alu (IRI) ma-gi ₅ -da ^ki
12. al ^ki šarri (LUGAL) ^ri bêli (EN) -ia
13. u [r] ra (U ₄^kám ) ù mi (GE ₆ ) -ša le -la
14. urra (U ₄^kám ) i-na-ṣa-ru
15. [i] š-tu eqlāti (A.ŠÀ ^meš ) ^Reverse
:
16. i-na narkabāti (GIGIR ^meš ) ù ṣ [âbē (GE ₆ ) -ša]
17. i-na-ṣa-ru <iš-tu> dûrāni ali (IRI) ^ki
18. šarri (LUGAL) ^ri bêli (EN) -ia
19. ù a-nu-um-ma d [ a] -a [n-na-a] t
20. nu-kur-ti ₇^lú.meš S [a] .Gaz
21. i-na mâti (KUR) ^ki ù lu-ú ji-de
22. šarru ( LUGAL) ^ru bêli (EN) -ia a-na mâti (KUR ^ki ) -šu

translation

Obverse : 1. To the king, [my] master,
2. and my sun and [my] gods, has spoken]
3. so Biridi [yes],
4. the faithful servant of the king:
5. At the feet of the king, my lord,
6. And my sun and my gods,
7. I fell seven times and seven times.
8. I have heard the words
9. of the king, my lord and my sun,
10. and behold, I am protecting
11. Magida,
12. the city of the king, my lord,
13th day and night (l [e] l).
14. During the day I guard
15. [from] the fields.
Back:
16. Mittelst wagon and warrior
17. I protect the walls of the city
18. The king, my lord.
19. For behold, mighty is
20. the enmity of the S [a] .Gaz people
21. in the land. So cared indeed
sir 22 the king to his country!

Web links

Photo in The Armana Letters in the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin (letter number 243 must be entered in the left search field).

literature

Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon: The El Amarna Tables, Part Two: Notes and Registers. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915, p. 1305 ( online on Internet Archive ).
Otto Schroeder : The clay tablets from El-Amarna . In: Near Eastern writing monuments of the royal museums in Berlin. Volume 11, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915, p. 148 ( online on Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Photos and transcription from EA 243 on Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (English).
↑ Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon: The El-Amarna-Tafeln, first part: The texts. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915, pp. 788-789 ( online on Internet Archive ).

[cdli-1] Photos and transcription from EA 243 on Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (English).

[2] Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon: The El-Amarna-Tafeln, first part: The texts. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915, pp. 788-789 ( online on Internet Archive ).