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RS 08.0333 (P503271)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS 08.0333 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503271 |
| 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)
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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⸣ {m}a-⸢mis⸣-tam-ri LUGAL KUR u₂-⸢ga⸣-ri-it | Aya-emištamru, king of Ugarit |
| 3 | ⸢qi₂⸣-bi-ma | It is its qībi. |
| 4 | [lu]-u₂ šul-mu ⸢a-na⸣ muh-⸢hi⸣-ka | May you be well! |
| 5 | ⸢un⸣-du {lu₂}DUMU KIN{ri}⸢ka⸣ | “Lord, the messenger’s son, |
| 6 | aš-šum IR₃ {m}na-na-a taš₃-pu-ra | Because you wrote to me about the work rate of Nanaya |
| 7 | u₃ {lu₂}⸢hu⸣-u₂-⸢ba-na⸣-nu | and the eḫu-ebāna-officials |
| 8 | ša {m}tu-li-⸢ša⸣ u₃ {m}⸢na⸣-na-a | From Tulip-eša-e and Emanaya. |
| 9 | iš-tu {lu₂-me}su₂-ti-i | from the Sutians |
| 10 | a-na 50 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR ip-ta-ṭar-šu | they have redeemed him for 50 shekels of silver. |
| 11 | i-na-an-na ŠA₃-šu-nu a-kan₂-na ap-x-x | Now, their hands ... |
| 12 | u₃ a-na {m}tu-li-ia-ša | and to Tulayaša |
| 13 | a-kan₂-na aq-bi | I said thus: |
| 14 | ma-a ⸢IR₃⸣ {m}na-na-a [...] | saying: “The temple of Nanaya |
| 15 | lu-tam-ma-a-mi a-kan₂-na | let me see. Here |
| 16 | li-iq-bi-mi ma-a šum-⸢ma⸣ | May he say: "If |
| 17 | {lu₂}su₂-[ti-i ...] | the Sūtî |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ {m}⸢tu-li⸣-[ša ...] | and Eteli-eša |
| 2 | a-kan₂-na iq-bi | here said, |
| 3 | ma-a {m}na-na-a ⸢nap⸣-ša-ta | saying: “Nanaya, from the napša canal |
| 4 | ša LUGAL li-it-ma-a-mi | May the king hear what I have to say. |
| 5 | u₃ {m}na-na-a ZI-ia it-⸢ta-mi⸣ | and Nanaya, my friend, has left |
| 6 | u₃ aš-šum 1 me-at GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR | And as for 100 shekels of silver |
| 7 | ša {⸢lu₂⸣}a-si₂-ri ša taš₃-pu-ra | of E-lu-asiri, which you wrote |
| 8 | e-nu-ma LU₂-MEŠ-ka an-nu-⸢ti⸣ | When your men |
| 9 | a-na tu-um-mi-i at-⸢ta⸣-din-šu-nu | To the tummīyu I have sent them. |
| 10 | ma-a šum-⸢ma⸣ {lu₂}a-si₂-⸢ru⸣ an-nu-u₂ | “If the Assyrian says this |
| 11 | 1 me-at KU₃.BABBAR il-te-qe₃-mi | 100 (shekels of) silver he took. |
| 12 | ⸢ša⸣ {m}na-na-a qa-at li-li-i-mi | Nanaya, the hand of lilīmu |
Sources & licences
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- 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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