Amarna letter EA 245

Amarna letter EA 245, titled: "Assignment of Guilt,"[1] is a medium length clay tablet Amarna letter from Biridiya the governor-'mayor' of Magidda.

The letter is in pristine condition except for a missing flake (lower-right, obverse) causing a lacuna at the end of a few lines.

The cuneiform characters are finely inscribed, with some photos that can even show the individual strokes of the cuneiform characters (the stroke sequence).

Letter EA 245 (see here-(Obverse): [3]), is numbered BM 29855, at the British Museum.

The initial corpus of letters were found at Akhenaten's city Akhetaten, in the floor of the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh; others were later found, adding to the body of letters.

II of IV) Ù tu-sà-ah-mì : (–gl–) tu-ra ___U tu-sà-ah-mì(tazzimtu) : (–gl–) tu-ra ___But "bad luck"(lamentation) : (–gl–)(the horse was disabled, "shot") 9.x?-pa?

13.Ù a-di ka-ša-di-ia ___U adi kašādu ___But before "conquering"-(in-battle) (("arriving"-(into battle)-)) 14.ù da-ku-šu : (–gl–) ma-ah-ṣú-ú ___u dâku-šu, – : (–gl–) mahāṣu, —!

]## 18.i-na MÈ (me3=tāhāzu) ta-ha#-zi## ___ina (MÈ = tāhāzu) - tāhā#zu## ___into BATTLE, battle 19.ù lu-ú yi-na- -[ -di-nu a-na ša-šu ] ___u lū nâ[du ana šâšu ] ___and "may-it-be" pr[aise for Him ] 20.

III of IV) yi-il5-qé-mì 1-diš-La-[ ab-a-ia ] ___laqû 1-diš-La-[ ab-a-ia ] ___took...1Labaya 26.iš-tu _IRI_ Ma-gid6-daki ___ištu _URU_ Me-gid6-daki ___from _city_ Megiddo 27.ù yi-iq-bi a-na ia-a- [ ši ] ___u qabû ana iāši — ___and said to me — 28.QuoteIna-mí ((No))šà-geš-_MÁ_ giš-ru((yes)) : (–gl–) a-na-yi ___Quotei-na-mí _MÁ_ giš-ru : (–gl–) a-na-yi ___QuoteBy boat ....(?by land carriage) 29.ú-ta-aš-ša-ru-uš-šu ___uššuru ___(I will) send 30.a-na (_lugal_)_Šarru_-ri ù yi-ìl-qé-šu ___ana (_lugal_)_Šarru_-ri,— ù ___to King,— 30.5--------------ù yi-ìl-qé-šu ___-----------------u leqû ___-----------------and take 31.1=dišSú-ra-ta ù yu-ta-šar-šu ___1=dišSú-ra-ta ___1Surata 31.5-------------ù yu-ta-šar-šu ___----------------u uššuru ___----------------and send (Him) 32.iš-tu _IRI_ He-na-tu-naki ___ištu _URU_ He-na-tu-naki ___from _city_ Hannathon 33.a-na _É_-šu ù 1=dišSú-ra-ta ___ana _É_-šu,EndQuote — ù 1=dišSú-ra-ta ___To _house_hisEndQuote — and 1Surata 33.5-------------ù 1=dišSú-ra-ta ___---------------u 1=dišSú-ra-ta ___---------------and 1Surata 34.la-qí-mi _kù-BABBARhi-a_ ip-țì-ir-ri-šu ___leqû _kù-BABBARhi-a_ ___took silver, – returning 34.6-------------ip-țì-ir-ri-šu ___----------------târu ___----------------returning 35.i-na _ŠU_-ti-šu : (–gl–) ba-di-ú ___ina _ŠU_-ti-šu : (–gl–) ba-di-ù ___in "Hand"-his — : (–gl–) ba-di-ù–!

___(compatriots)(Brothers)pl.-mine,— less important, —!EndQuote 41.Ù 1=dišSú-ra-ta ___U 1=dišSú-ra-ta ___But 1Surata 42.yu-ta-šir9 Note: the rest, (majority), of line 42, is the up-side-down cuneiform from Obverse, Line 6nu-um-ma : (–gl–) ha-ia-ma

46.Ù lu-ú yi-de-mi ___U, — lū idû,[7] – ___And, — "may-it-be" proclaimed (& recognized), – ("may you know ") 47.