Amarna letter EA 244
Amarna letter EA 244 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 Egyptian Museum in Cairo , inventory number CM 04768 (12200).
Akkadian text
Front:
1. a-na šarri (LUGAL) ri bêli (EN) -ia
2. ù d šamši (UTU) -ia qí-bí-ma
3. um-ma m bi-ri-di-ja
4. ardu ( ÁRAD) ša ki-it-ti ša
5.šarri (LUGAL) ri a-na 2 (m) šêpē (GÌRI meš ) šarri (LUGAL) ri
6.bêli (EN) -ia ù d šamši (UTU) -ia
7 7 (m) -šu ù 7 (m) -ta-a-an
8. am-qú-ut-me li-de-mì
9. šarru (LUGAL) ru bêli (EN) -ia i-nu-ma
10. iš-tu i-re-bi ṣâbē (ÉRIN meš ) pí-ṭá-ti
11. i-te 9 -pu-uš-mì m la-ab-a-ja
12.nu-kúr-ta 5 i- na mu-uḫ-ḫi-ia
13. ù la-a-mi ni-li-ú
14.zú-si-ga ba-qa-ni ka-ṣí-ra
15. ù la-a-mì ni-le- ú
16. a-ṣí ká a-bu-ul-lí ša-aḫ-ri
17. iš-tu pa-ni m la-ab-a-ja
18. i-nu-ma la-ma-ad-mì
19 . ù l [a] -a-mì ti-id- [da] -nu ? -na
20. ṣâbē (ÉRIN meš ) pí-ṭá-tu 4
21. ù a-nu-u [mm] a
back:
22. ta ! -ri-iṣ pa-ni [-šu]
23. a-na la-qí-i
24. alu (IRI) ma-gi-id-da ki
25. ù lu-ú-mi
26. li-ik-ki -im-mi
27. šarru (LUGAL) ru ala (IRI) ki -šu la-a-mì
28. ji-iṣ-bat-ši
29. m la-ab-a-ja
30. šum-ma-me ga -am-ra-at-mì
31. alu (IRI) ki i-na mûti (BA.ÚŠ)
32. i-na mu-ta-a-an
33. i-na u [p-ri ù lu-ú ]
34. li-di-nam-mi šarru (LUGAL) ru
35. 1 (m) me lú.meš ma-an-ṣa-ar-ta 5
36. a-na na-ṣa-ri ali ki -šu
37 . la-a-mì ji-iṣ-bat-ši
38. m la-ab-a-ja šum-ma-mì
39. i-ia-nu pa-ni-ma
40.ša-nu-ta 5 i- na
41. m la-ab-a-ja
Left margin:
42. ṣa-ba-at-mì alu (IRI) ma-gid 6 -da [ki]
43. ju-ba-á-ú
translation
Obverse:
1. To the king, my lord
2. and my sun, spoke
3. So Biridijah,
4. the faithful servant of the
5th king: At the 2 feet of the king,
6. My lord and my sun,
7th. I fell 7 times and
8 times 7 times . Let
the king, my lord, know that,
10. since the field troops moved in,
11. Labaja made
12. Enmity against me!
13. And we cannot
14. [...] (kazira)
15. and we cannot go out
16. through the gate (šaḫri)
17. because of Labajas,
18. after he has experienced (that).
19. [And] nd (but) you have not [given]
20. Field troops.
21. [A] nd behold,
reverse side:
22. [his] face is directed
to take 23.
24. Magidda.
25. But in truth,
26.
the king should
take hold of 27. his city, so that it will not 28. conquer it
29. Labaiah,
30. when it has perished,
31. the city through death,
32. through disease,
33. through dust! So may
the king give
35.1 hundred occupying people
36. to protect his city,
37. so that it does not conquer
38. Labaja! If
39th is not another
40th goal in
41st Labaja,
Left margin:
42nd so he seeks
to destroy 43rd Magidda.
literature
- Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon: The El Amarna Tables, Part Two: Notes and Registers. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915, pp. 1305-1306 ( online on Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Drawing and transcription of EA 244 on Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (English).
- ↑ Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon: The El-Amarna-Tafeln, first part: The texts. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915, pp. 790-793 ( online on Internet Archive ).