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RS varia 16 (P504249)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS varia 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P504249 |
| 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⸣ LUGAL-ma | the king |
| 2 | a-na {m}am-mu-ra-pi₂ | to Ammurapi |
| 3 | LUGAL KUR u₂-ga-rit₂ | king of Ugarit. |
| 4 | qi₂-bi-ma | speak! |
| 5 | ⸢lu⸣-u₂ ⸢šul⸣-mu a-na muh-hi-ka | The elû-demon and the svul-emu-disease against you |
| 6 | DINGIR{nu} a-na šul-ma-ni | the god for healing |
| 7 | PAB{ru}ka | your brother |
| 8 | ša taš₃-pu-ra ma-a {giš}MA₂-MEŠ KUR₂ | As to what you wrote: “The enemy ships |
| 9 | i-na ŠA₃ A.AB.BA | From the sea |
| 10 | i-ta-am-ru-u₂ | they shall examine. |
| 11 | u₃ šum₂-ma ki-it-tu | and if a claim |
| 12 | {giš}MA₂-MEŠ i-ta-am-⸢ru⸣-[u₂] | the boats will depart |
| 13 | u₃ lu du₂-nu-na-[ta] | or from Dununa |
| 14 | dan-niš i-na-an-⸢na⸣ | he will be able to go out |
| 15 | at-tu-ka | You, |
| 16 | ERIN₂-MEŠ-ka {giš}GIGIR-MEŠ-[ka] | Your troops, your chariots |
| 17 | a-ia-ka-ma-a | may there be |
| 18 | aš-bu ul it-ta-ka-ma-a | He has not come to me. |
| 19 | aš-bu i-⸢la⸣-nu-um-ma-a | that man shall be killed |
| 20 | i-na a-hi-ri-it {lu₂}KUR | in the side of the enemy |
| 21 | ma-am-⸢ma⸣ u₂-nam-maš-ka | “Whoever you are, I will set you free! |
| 22 | IRI-HI.A-ka BAD₃-MEŠ | Your cities, your walls |
| 23 | li-i-mi | eponymy of |
| 24 | ERIN₂-MEŠ u₃ {giš}GIGIR-MEŠ | troops and chariots |
| 25 | i-na ŠA₃ šu-ri-ib | From the hand of Šurib |
| 26 | pa-ni {lu₂}KUR₂ du₂-gu₅-ul | the face of a hostile enemy |
| 27 | u₃ du₂-nu-na-ta | and Dununa |
| 28 | dan-niš | strong |
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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