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RS 94.2408 (P504116)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS 94.2408 |
|---|---|
| ID | P504116 |
| 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 | um-ma {m}tul₂-pi₂-{d}IŠKUR | Thus Tulpi-Adad |
| 2 | a-na {lu₂}sa₃-ki-in-ni | to the prefect |
| 3 | DUMU-ia qi₂-bi-ma | Say to my son: |
| 4 | DUMU-⸢ia li-im⸣ DINGIR-MEŠ | May my son be praised by the gods! |
| 5 | a-na šul-ma-⸢ni⸣ PAP{ru}ka | To Šulma-ēni, your guard |
| 6 | aš-šum ZAG-HI.A at-tal-ka | Because I have come to the borders |
| 7 | u₃ ul-tu ṭup-⸢pi⸣ aš-pu-ra-ku | And since I have sent you my tablet, |
| 8 | ma-a al-ka u₃ at-ta | "Come, and you |
| 9 | la-a ta-at-ta-al-ka | You did not come. |
| 10 | u₃ la-a ⸢tu₃-di⸣ šum-ma ṭup-pu | And if the tablet |
| 11 | a-na muh-hi-⸢ka⸣ la-a il-li-ku-u₂-ni | did not come to you. |
| 12 | i-na-an-⸢na⸣ {m}ki-in-na-RI-ṣi | Now Kinna-RIṣi |
| 13 | il-la-ak u₃ ZAG-MEŠ šu-ku-un | He will go and place the shoulders. |
| 14 | a-nu-um-ma i-na KUR {iri}ha-at-ti | Now, in the land of Hatti |
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | a-la-ak | to go |
| 2 | u₃ ANŠE a-na KASKAL{ni}ia | and a donkey for the campaign |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-ia-nu | Iyanu |
| 2 | u₃ DUMU-ia ANŠE SIG₅ | and my son, a good donkey |
| 3 | tu-ra 6 DUG šu-bi-la | Send me 6 pots! |
| 4 | ⸢u₃ DUMU⸣-ia mi-nu-um-me₂-e | What is it that my son says? |
| 5 | ha-ši-il-ta-ka šu-pur-ma | Send me your letter! |
| 6 | a-na DUMU-ia lu-še-bi-la-ku | I shall send to my son. |
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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