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RS 94.2299 + RS 94.2553 (P504084)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS 94.2299 + RS 94.2553 |
|---|---|
| ID | P504084 |
| 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 | um-ma {d}UTU{ši} ⸢LUGAL⸣ GAL{u₂} | Thus (says) Šamaš, chief eunuch. |
| 2 | a-na {m}niq{iq}pa-an-du | to Niqbi-pandu |
| 3 | LUGAL KUR u₂-ga-ri-it qi₂-bi-ma | Say to the king of Ugarit: |
| 4 | e-nu-ma it-ti {d}UTU{ši} LUGAL GAL{⸢u₂⸣} | When with Šamaš, the Great King |
| 5 | gab-ba₂ šul-mu | all is well |
| 6 | ki-i-me-e ⸢ṭup⸣-pu ⸢an⸣-nu-u₂ | Like a stela, like an ēnû |
| 7 | a-na [mu-uh-he₂]-⸢ka⸣ i-kaš-šad | to Muḫēkâ he will reach. |
| 8 | x [a-ma-tu₃ ša] ⸢ṭup⸣-pi₂ an-ni-i la-a ṭa-ba-a-at | The wording of this eponymy is not known. |
| 9 | ⸢at⸣-[ta-ma] al-ka | and come! |
| 10 | a-na ⸢mu-uh-he₂⸣ LUGAL ⸢ku₈⸣-šu-ud | for the king's emuhḫe-house |
| 11 | a-ma-tu₃ ⸢ša⸣ E₂ LUGAL i-ba₂-aš-ši | The word of the king's house is here. |
| 12 | u₃ a-ma-ta ka-bi-it-⸢ta⸣ | and the word of Kabit-eta |
| 13 | iš-tu ru-qi₂-iš ša-pa-a-ri | From the ruqīš of the netherworld |
| 14 | u₂-ul il-la-ak | shall not go |
| 15 | ha-mu-ut-ta i-na a-ma-ti ⸢an-ni-ti⸣ | “May you be well, by these words |
| 16 | [a-na] ⸢mu⸣-uh-he₂ LUGAL ⸢x x x x⸣ | to the king ... |
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | [x x] x x ti-x [x x] | ... ... |
| 2 | x x x x x | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {⸢m}za-LU₂-tiš x-x-ki-in⸣ | Za-litiš |
| 2 | it-ti-ka li-il-li-ka₄-a-ni | May he come with you. |
| 3 | u₃ at-ta a-na mu-uh-he₂ LUGAL | And you to the king |
| 4 | ⸢ta⸣-[al-la]-ak | to go out from there |
| 5 | DUB-MEŠ-ka a-na {⸢lu₂⸣}DAM.GAR₃{ut-ti}⸢ka⸣ | Your tablets to the merchants |
| 6 | a-la-a-ki la-a tu₃-u₂-ma-šer | You will not return to your city. |
| 7 | a-du a-ma-tu₃ ša ṭa-ba-a-<at> | until the word of the king |
| 8 | LUGAL i-qab-ba-ak-ku₈ | The king will say: |
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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