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RS 17.0051 (P503534)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS 17.0051 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503534 |
| 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 {m}i-bi-ra-na | to Ibirana |
| 3 | LUGAL KUR u₂-ga-ri-it | king of Ugarit. |
| 4 | qi₂-bi-ma | speak! |
| 5 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na muh-hi-ka | May you be well! |
| 6 | aš-šum ZAG-MEŠ-ka | Because of your shoulders |
| 7 | ša taš₃-pu-ra | that you wrote |
| 8 | mi-nu-me-e ZAG-MEŠ-ka | all your borders |
| 9 | ša {m}{d}30{ma}LU₂ | of Sin-māti |
| 10 | iš-ku-na-ak-ku | Iškanakku |
| 11 | aš-ra-šu-nu-ma | to them |
| 12 | ⸢lu⸣-u₂ ṣa-ab-tu₃ | |
| 13 | ⸢ma⸣-am-ma | “It is me’ |
| 14 | la-a u₂-na-ak-kar₃-šu-nu-ti | they shall not release them |
| 15 | u₃ a-nu-ma | and now |
| r | ||
| 1 | {m}e-bi-in-na-ʾe-e | Ebinnalê, |
| 2 | u₃ {m}kur₃-⸢kal⸣-li | and Kur-ekal-eli |
| 3 | al-tap-ra-aš-[šu] | I have written to him |
| 4 | u₃ ZAG-MEŠ | and the front |
| 5 | ša-a-šu-nu-⸢ma⸣ | Ša-šunu-e23 |
| 6 | i-šak-ka-nu-ni-ik-ku | they shall place for you |
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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