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RS 20.0181,a + RS 20.0181,07 + RS 20.0182,a (P503875)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS 20.0181,a + RS 20.0181,07 + RS 20.0182,a |
|---|---|
| ID | P503875 |
| 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⸣-MEŠ mi-iṣ-⸢ri⸣-[i ...] | to the king of the lands, Ištar |
| 2 | [...] x LUGAL qar-ra-[di ...] | ... king of battle ... |
| 3 | [... be]-⸢li⸣ gab-bi KUR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [EN-ia qi₂-bi-ma] | ... all the lands, speak to my lord |
| 4 | [um-ma {m}... IR₃]-⸢ka⸣ a-na GIR₃-MEŠ EN-⸢ia⸣ 2{šu₂} 7{šu₂} am-qut] | Thus (says) PN, your messenger: I fall at the feet of my lord. |
| 5 | [a-na muh-hi-ka lu-u₂] ⸢šul-mu⸣ a-⸢na E₂⸣-HI.A-[ka ...] | May it be upon you. May the ešulmû-plant, the water of your temples |
| 6 | [...] x [...] | |
| 1' | [...]-⸢ia⸣ [...] | ...-eya’e |
| 2' | [... iš]-⸢tu⸣ qa-ti {m}{d}[...] | ... hand of ... |
| 3' | [...] ⸢IR₃⸣-ka | In the ... of the temple |
| 4' | [...] ⸢be-li aš-šum⸣ KASKAL{ni} ša iṣ-ṣa-⸢bat-ma⸣ | ... my lord, because of the journey which he (Ištar) took |
| 5' | [...] x DUMU-MEŠ KUR u₂-ga-ri-it | ... the citizens of Ugarit |
| 6' | [...]-⸢x⸣-il DUMU-MEŠ KUR ki-na-hi | ...-eil, the citizens of Kinaḫi |
| 7' | [... u₂]-⸢šal⸣-lim-šu 1 GUN 5 me-at KU₃.BABBAR-[MEŠ] | ... his ešal-elim plant, 1 talent 500 (shekels of) silver |
| 8' | [... it]-⸢ti⸣ DUMU-MEŠ KUR ki-na-hi | ... the citizens of Kinaḫi |
| 9' | [...]-MEŠ ša DUMU-MEŠ KUR u₂-ga-ri-it ša-li-⸢im⸣ | ... of the citizens of the land of Ugarit |
| 10' | [... {m]}⸢bur₅⸣-ha-nu-wa a-kan₂-na iq-ta-bi [ma-a] | ... Bur-Hanuwa said thus: |
| 11' | [... a]-⸢na⸣ na-ha-si₂-ia-mi KU₃.BABBAR-MEŠ re-ha-ti | ... the silver, leftovers |
| 12' | [...] ir-te-eh i-laq-qe₃-mi | ... he will approach and take. |
| 13' | [...] ⸢x⸣ UGU KU₃.BABBAR-MEŠ-ia-ma iṣ-ṣa-bat-an-ni {m}⸢bur₅⸣-[ha-nu-wa] | ... upon my silver he has seized me, Eburḫanuwa |
| 14' | [...] KU₃.BABBAR-MEŠ-ia-ma u₃ a-na-ku-ma u₂-šal-lim-[šu] | ... of my silver and I will redeem him |
| 15' | [...] ⸢x⸣ KU₃.BABBAR-MEŠ šu-u₂ [a]-⸢na⸣ DUMU-MEŠ KUR ⸢u₂-ga-ri⸣-[it] | ... that silver, Aya-nā’e, sons of the land of Ugarit |
| 16' | [...] ⸢x an-na⸣ [x-x]-⸢na⸣-ši [...] | ... the ... of heaven |
| 17' | [...] ⸢iṣ⸣-ṣa-[bat ...] | ... ešabši-plant |
| 18' | [...] ⸢A⸣ [...] | ... eša’e |
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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