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Ras Shamra-Ougarit 07, 008 (P347846)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | Ras Shamra-Ougarit 07, 008 |
|---|---|
| ID | P347846 |
| Museum no. | NMSA — |
| Collection | National Museum of Syria, Aleppo, Syria |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Ugarit (mod. Ras Shamra) |
| Coordinates | 35.6021, 35.7853 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | um-ma LUGAL KUR kar-⸢ga-miš⸣ | Thus (says) the king of Carchemish: |
| 2 | a-na LUGAL KUR u₂-ga-⸢ri-it⸣ | to the king of Ugarit |
| 3 | qi₂-bi-ma | speak! |
| 4 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na ⸢muh⸣-[hi]-⸢ka⸣ | May it be well with you! |
| 5 | a-nu-ma {lu₂}kar-tap-⸢pu⸣ | Herewith, the kartappû-official |
| 6 | ša {d}UTU{ši} {m}he₂-⸢ru⸣-[...] | of Šamaš, He-eru- |
| 7 | aš-šum {m}⸢ta-al⸣-x-[x (x)] | Concerning Etaal- |
| 8 | ⸢LU₂-MEŠ ša⸣ [x x] ⸢ki-i⸣ [x (x)] | The men of ... the Eki’e temple |
| 9 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 10 | ⸢ša-x⸣ [...] | ša-x-e23 |
| 11 | ⸢x x x IR₃-MEŠ⸣ i-na ⸢x⸣ [x x] | ... in the ... house |
| 12 | ⸢lu-u₂ ta⸣-ša-par-[ra ...] | The elû-priestess, the ta’ešapara priest |
| 13 | ⸢u₂-ul⸣ [...] | “It is enough, I want to go out(?) |
| 14 | [...] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | la-a ta-⸢na⸣-[...] | You should not ... |
| 2 | [u₃] ki-ma ⸢GIŠ.HUR⸣ [...] | and like the ešḫur-plant |
| 3 | [ša] {d}⸢UTU{ši⸣} [...] | of Ea |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ la-a ki-tu₄ | and not a claim |
| 2 | ⸢mi-ri⸣-il-ti-ia [...] | “My lordship(?) |
| 3 | ⸢e⸣-te-ri-iš u₃ i-din-šu | e’eteriš and Iddinši |
| 4 | šum-ma {kuš}tu₃-ka-an-na | If your sandals |
| 5 | u₃ GIŠ.HUR [ša] {d}UTU{ši} | and the work of Šamaš |
| 6 | u₂-ul na-a-ši | he is not responsible. |
| 7 | mi-im-ma la-a | nothing |
| 8 | ta-na-din | is given. |
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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