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BASOR 147, 25 (P503575)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | BASOR 147, 25 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503575 |
| 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 | a-na LUGAL KUR {iri}u₂-ga-ri-it | to the king of Ugarit |
| 2 | a-bi-ia qi₂-bi-ma | Say to my father: |
| 3 | um-ma {m}SUM-{d}IŠKUR | Thus Iddin-Adad |
| 4 | LUGAL KUR {iri}uš-na-ti DUMU-ka-ma | king of the land of Ušnati, your son |
| 5 | a-na muh-hi a-bi-ia | to my father |
| 6 | dan-niš₂ lu-u₂ šul-mu | May it be well |
| 7 | a-bu-ia li-im DINGIR-MEŠ | My father, a thousand gods |
| 8 | a-na šul-ma-ni PAP{ru}ka | For the protection of your body |
| 9 | a-bu-ia e-nu-ma | my father when |
| 10 | LUGAL KUR {iri}kar-ga-miš | king of Carchemish. |
| 11 | tal-tap-ra a-na muh-hi-ia | you wrote to me |
| 12 | ma-a a-nu-ma-mi | "Now |
| 13 | LU₂ KUR {iri}e-mar | the man of the land of Emar |
| 14 | an-nu-u₂ | this |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na muh-hi-ka | to you |
| 2 | aṭ-ru-us-šu-mi | a stag |
| 3 | ⸢DI⸣-MEŠ-šu it-ti | his ešallims with |
| 4 | LU₂ KUR si₂-ia-ni | the man of the land of Siyani |
| 5 | i-na KASKAL{ni} šu-ku-un-mi | on the road he is going |
| 6 | i-na-an-na iq-ta-bi | Now he has said: |
| 7 | LU₂ {iri}e-mar an-nu-u₂ | This man of Emar |
| 8 | ma-a ia-nu DI-MEŠ-ia | "There are no lawsuits against me." |
| 9 | i-na {iri}si₂-ia-ni | in Siyannu |
| 10 | ma-a it-ti LU₂ {iri}a-ri | "with the man of Aru |
| 11 | DI-MEŠ-ia i-ba-aš-ši-mi | There are legal proceedings against me. |
| 12 | i-na-an-nu a-nu-ma | Now, here |
| 13 | a-na muh-hi a-bi-ia | to my father |
| 14 | aṭ-ru-us-šu-nu-ti | their limbs |
| 15 | a-bu-ia li-iš-al-⸢šu⸣-nu | my father should ask them |
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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