IBoT I 34[1]

Source: Harrak, Assyria and Hanigalbat

 

To the Sun my father say: thus says the king of [Ha]nigalbat your son.

 

Pe[ace] be with the Sun my father.

I trust the Sun my father. As for me, I thus say, like my father, let the Sun say […]

What sin did I commit against my father? And Halpa-ziti, the king of Aleppo, and Ehli-sharruma, the king of Ishuwa, before […]

If a man has two judges[2], the one comes forth and the other does not c[ome forth]. Now the king of Ashur my enemy has asked, and, in accordance (with the words) of Adad my lord, he acted.  The Sun, my father, heard.

I am living in the city Sinamu and Ehli-sarruma has sent his message to me. He wrote the following: [….]

 



[1] Harrak, 77ff,100,218. Guterbock attributed recipient to be Hattusilis 3 (see Rowton, JCS 13 (1959),10, n43. See Weidner, Ugaritica 6 (1969),523. Klengel, Or NS 32 (1963), 280ff. Ehli-sarruma ruled in late Hattusilis 3/early Tudhaliya 4.

 

[2] Perhaps creditors is better.

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