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PRU 4, pl. 39 RS 17.0315 (P503612)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | PRU 4, pl. 39 RS 17.0315 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503612 |
| 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 {m}niq₂-me-pa₂ ŠEŠ-ia ⸢qi₂⸣-[bi-ma] | To Niqmepa, my lord, I have sworn it. |
| 2 | um-ma {m}niq₂-ma-{d}IŠKUR ŠEŠ-⸢ka⸣-[ma] | Thus Niqmaddu, your servant: |
| 3 | a-na muh-hi ŠEŠ-ia lu-u₂ [šul-mu] | May it be well with my hand. |
| 4 | ŠEŠ-ia i-na mu-⸢uh⸣-[ri-i ...] ⸢x⸣-ak-ti | My hand in the scepter |
| 5 | ti-it-ta-ad-na [...] | You have given me ... |
| 6 | u₃ it-ta-bi-it [...] | and he has seized |
| 7 | iš-tu ŠU{ti} {m}šu-ra-[ia] | from Šuraya |
| 8 | u₃ i-na-an-na ta-ad-[di]-in-šu | And now you have given him |
| 9 | i-na ŠU{ti} {m}šu-ra-⸢ia⸣-[ma] | from Šura-eya |
| 10 | u₃ in-na-bi-it | and innabīt |
| 11 | iš-tu ŠU{ti}šu | From his hand |
| 12 | u₃ la e-de₄ | and does not go out |
| r | ||
| 1 | ki-i {m}šu-ra-ia | like Urāya |
| 2 | um-ta-ši-ir-šu | to smite |
| 3 | i-na-⸢an-na ŠEŠ⸣-ia | Now, my hand |
| 4 | i-de₄ LU₂ [ša-a]-šu | knows that man |
| 5 | ki-i la-⸢am⸣ [il]-⸢la⸣-ak | If he does not go out, he will go out |
| 6 | i-na KUR ša-ni-ti | In that land |
| 7 | ki-i i-na aš-ra-ni-im | When in the past |
| 8 | a-ši-ib u₃ ŠEŠ-ia | I ask and my hand |
| 9 | gab₂-bu lib₃-bi-šu | all of his heart |
| 10 | ⸢li⸣-iš-al a-na LU₂ ⸢ša⸣-[a-šu] | “Lî-eš’al to the man of his (own) house |
| 11 | u₃ lu-u₂ te-ra-aš-⸢šu⸣ | or you will recite |
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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