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RS varia 25 (P504252)
Letter, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | RS varia 25 |
|---|---|
| ID | P504252 |
| 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 u-ga-ri-⸢it⸣ | to the king of Ugarit |
| 2 | ⸢um-ma⸣ LUGAL {iri}ṣur-ri | The king of Šurru |
| 3 | ⸢qi₂⸣-bi-ma | It is its qībi. |
| 4 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na muh-hi-⸢ka⸣ | May it be well with you! |
| 5 | DINGIR-MEŠ a-na šul-ma-ni | May the gods protect me |
| 6 | PAP{ru}ka | in your presence |
| 7 | ša-ni-tam ŠEŠ-ia a-nu-ma | This is my handiwork. Now |
| 8 | {m}{d}U-⸢miš₃⸣-lam im-tah-ra-an-ni | Nergal-emiš-elam approached me. |
| 9 | aš-šum [IG] ⸢GAL⸣-ME-šu ša i-la-qe₃ | Because he is a ... of the palace, that he will take |
| 10 | {m}{d}⸢e₂-a-GAL u₃⸣ {lu₂}GAL kar-ri | Ea-rabi, the chief of the merchants, |
| 11 | ⸢iš⸣-tu E₂{ti} {m}da-a-⸢da₂⸣-mi | The temple of Dayya-edâmi |
| 12 | u₃ la-a i-na-din ŠAM₂-⸢MEŠ⸣-šu-nu | and he will not give them. |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-di ⸢i⸣-na-an-⸢na-ma⸣ | as long as he lives |
| 2 | u₃ li-id-din ⸢ŠAM₂-MEŠ⸣-[šu-nu] | and he should give their ešumû offerings |
| 3 | a-na {m}{d}U-miš₃-lam | to Nergal-išlam |
| 4 | u₃ la-a u₂-qal-la-<la> | and he will not raise a claim |
| 5 | UGU-šu-nu u₃ ki-⸢ia⸣-[am] | upon them and in my place |
| 6 | taš₃-pu-ra ŠEŠ-ia a-[na muh]-hi-ia | You wrote to me, my hand against me |
| 7 | {m}{d}e₂-a-GAL u₃ {m}ši-piṭₓ(BAD){d}U | Ea-rabi and Vīpî-Ninurta |
| 8 | i-ia-nu a-kan₂-na | he is here. |
| 9 | u₃ ki-i a-qab₂-⸢bi⸣ [a-na muh-hi-ka] | and when I speak to you |
| t.e. | ||
| 1 | ki-i ⸢il⸣-[la-ku u₃] | as Eilaku and |
| 2 | ⸢li⸣-[id-din ŠAM₂-MEŠ ša] | Elī-iddin, the slaves |
| 3 | ⸢IG⸣ GAL-⸢MEŠ-šu⸣ | chief of the temples |
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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