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PRU 4, pl. 72 RS 17.0422 (P503678)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | PRU 4, pl. 72 RS 17.0422 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503678 |
| 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 | a-na LUGAL KUR u₂-ga-ri-⸢it⸣ | to the king of Ugarit |
| 2 | EN-ia qi₂-bi-ma | Speak to my lord! |
| 3 | um-ma {m}ta-gu-uh-⸢li⸣ | Thus Taguḫ-elî: |
| 4 | IR₃-ka-ma | your servant. |
| 5 | a-na GIR₃-MEŠ EN-ia | To the feet of my lord |
| 6 | iš-tu ru-qiš | From the ruqīš (house) |
| 7 | 2{šu₂} 7{šu₂} am-qut | 2 7 amqut |
| 8 | it-ti EN-ia mi-nu-me-e | with my lord, whatever |
| 9 | šul-ma-nu ṭe₂-ma | šulmānu-disease |
| 10 | li-te-er-ru-ni | may they return. |
| 11 | aš-šum {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ | If lapis lazuli |
| 12 | ša a-na LUGAL taš₃-pu-ra | which you wrote to the king |
| 13 | ma-a {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ ub-ta-ʾi-mi | saying: “I have brought lapis lazuli |
| 14 | u₃ la-a a-ta-mar | but I did not see. |
| 15 | u₃ ŠA₃-šu | and his hand |
| 16 | ša LUGAL a-na muh-hi | of the king to |
| 17 | EN-ia im-ta-ra-aṣ | my lord has sinned |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-na-an-na EN-ia | Now, my lord |
| 2 | {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ iš-tu le-et | lapis lazuli from the left |
| 3 | ma-am-ma | nobody |
| 4 | li-ba-am-ma | may there be, and |
| 5 | u₃ a-na LUGAL šu-bi-la | And send it to the king! |
| 6 | LUGAL {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ dan-niš₂ u₂-ba-ʾa-a | The king weighed out a large lapis lazuli |
| 7 | šum-ma {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ a-na LUGAL | If lapis lazuli to the king |
| 8 | tu-še-ba-la u₃ ta-mar | you will bring, and you will see. |
| 9 | šum-ma LUGAL ba-ni-ta | If a king from afar |
| 10 | la-a e-te-puš₂-ka | has not performed against you |
| 11 | u₃ a-na-ku am-⸢ša⸣-a ka-am-ma a-na EN-ia a-qa-bi | And as for me, I will say to my lord: |
| 12 | u₃ a-nu-ma {lu₂}DUMU KIN{ri}ia | Now, my messenger |
| 13 | a-na muh-hi EN-ia | To my lord: |
| 14 | at-ru-uṣ u₃ mi-nu-me-e | “Atru’uṣ and everything |
| 15 | mi-ri-il₅-tu₄ | Iri-iltu |
| 16 | ša EN-ia e-te-ri-iš | of my lord I have sent |
| 17 | u₃ EN-ia a-na ŠU LU₂{li₃} | and my lord to the hand of the man |
| 18 | an-ni-i li-di₃-nam-ma | let him give me this, and |
| 19 | [ar]-⸢ki₃⸣-ta | from Ar-Ea |
| 20 | lil-li-ka | may he come. |
| 21 | a-di-ni i-na KUR hat-⸢ti⸣ | until now in the land Ḫatti’e |
| 22 | la-⸢a⸣ ṣe-lu KI-ia | The lord with me |
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | ⸢u₃⸣ EN-ia TU BU GA AN ZA | My lord ... |
| 2 | ⸢li⸣-id-di₃-na šum-ma EN-ia | “If my lord |
| 3 | la-a u₂-še-za-ba-an-ni | he did not allow me |
| 4 | u₃ ma-an-nu li-še-zi-ba-an-ni | and who will save me? |
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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