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RS 18.0054 (P503714)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS 18.0054 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503714 |
| 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' | ⸢ma-a 2 LU₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | Two emāya priests |
| 2' | ih-ta-al-⸢qu⸣ [...] | (Sum) ... he screamed(?) (Akk) He trembled ... |
| 3' | ṭe₂-ma al-ta-ka-an [...] | “If you want, I will put ... |
| 4' | šu-um-mu e-ta-am-⸢ru⸣ [...] | If he slips through the cracks |
| 5' | u₃ i-ṣa-bu-tu-šu-nu [...] | and they seized them |
| 6' | u₃ u₂-ma-ša-ar-šu-⸢nu⸣ [...] | And he made him enter ... |
| 7' | u₃ a-nu-ma LUGAL KUR u-ga-ri-⸢it⸣ [...] x | Now, the king of Ugarit |
| 8' | ŠEŠ-ia it-ti₇-ia za-ir(NI) | My hand is bound with my arm. |
| 9' | u₃ la-a i-ša-pa-ra | and he does not write |
| 10' | ⸢DUMU⸣ KIN{ri}šu a-na muh-hi-ia | his messenger to me |
| 11' | a-na muh-hi DUMU {m}ba-du-ni | against the son of Baduni |
| 12' | ka-al-be 1{en} ša hi-ṭa-<ne₂> | Each has taken one (copy of this document). |
| r | ||
| 1 | GAL-MEŠ a-ka-na ih-ṭi₂-u₂-ni | the chiefs of the city have stolen it |
| 2 | u₃ ep-ša ṣe-le-tu i-na u₂-ti | and the deeds of ladyship in the uti |
| 3 | ep-šu-u₂-ni u₃ qa-du ma-te | and as long as he lives |
| 4 | ṣe-le-tu i-na be-ru-u₂-ni | The noble one, in the midst |
| 5 | a-na-ku aq-ta-bi ma-a gab-bi | I said: "All |
| 6 | mar-ši-ti ša E₂-ia | the debts of my house |
| 7 | a-na ku-na-šu-nu u₃ mar-⸢ši⸣-[tu ...] | to Kunašunu and Mar-eştu |
| 8 | ša E₂{ti}ku-nu at-tu-⸢ia⸣ [...] | of your house, you are my ... |
| 9 | DUMU KIN{ri}ku-nu a-na ⸢muh⸣-[hi-ia ...] | Your messenger to the emuḫḥiya temple |
| 10 | am-mi-ni la-a i-⸢la⸣-[ku ...] | Why don’t they go out? |
| 11 | [x] DUMU KIN{ri} [...] | ... the messenger |
| 12 | [...] x [...] | |
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | [...] gab-bu-ru-ti SIG₅ | ... all is good. |
| 2 | [...]-⸢ta⸣-ka la-ad-din | ... I shall give. |
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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