Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
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Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
No. 36 B. M.—“To King _Annumuria_(127) (Amenophis III) Son of the Sun, my
Lord thus (says) this thy servant _Akizzi_.(128) Seven times at the feet
of my Lord I bow. My Lord in these my lands I am afraid. Mayst thou
protect one who is thy servant under the yoke of my Lord. From the yoke of
my Lord I do not rebel. Lo! there is fear of my foes. The people of this
thy servant are under thy yoke: this country is among thy lands: the city
_Katna_(129) is thy city: I am on the side of my Lord’s rule (yoke). Lo!
the soldiers and the chariots of my Lord’s government have received corn
and drink, oxen and beasts (oil and honey?), meeting the soldiers and the
chariots of my Lord’s dominion (coming?) to me. And now let my Lord ask
the great men of his dominion. My Lord, all lands tremble before thy
soldiers and thy chariots. If these lands are under the dominion of my
Lord’s land, and they are seizing them, let him order his soldiers and his
chariots this year, and let him take the land of _Marhasse_,(130) the
whole of it, to the yoke of my Lord, when—my Lord—the soldiers of the
slaves(131) are(132) ... For six days ago he went out into the land of
_Hu(ba)_, and truly _Aziru_ is sending them, and if in this year my Lord
does not send out the soldiers and the chariots of his government ... to
meet _Aziru_ (and) make him flee ... all will rebel ... My Lord, know him.
My Lord (know) the men who are his foes ... And lo! now the King of the
land of the _Hittites_ ... with pride rebels against his gods. And men who
are destroyers serve the King of the land of the _Hittites_: he sends them
forth. My Lord, my servants, the men of the city of _Katna_, _Aziru_
expels, and all that is theirs, out of the land of the dominion of my
Lord; and behold (he takes?) the northern lands of the dominion of my
Lord. Let (my Lord) save the ... of the men of the city _Katna_. My Lord
truly they made ... he steals their gold my Lord; as has been said there
is fear, and truly they give gold. My Lord—Sun God, my fathers’
god(133)—the men have made themselves your foes, and they have wasted from
over against the abode of their camp (or fortress); and now behold—O Sun
God of my fathers—the King of the _Hittites_ makes them march. And know of
them, my Lord—may the gods make slack their hand. As has been said there
is fear. And lo! perchance the Sun God of my fathers will turn his heart
toward me. My Lord’s word is sure, and let the (increase or tithe of
gold?) be given him, as we have purposed for the Sun God of my fathers. As
has been said they have done to me; and they have destroyed the ... of my
Lord. For this corner—the dwelling of their fortress (or camp)—is out of
sight of the Sun God.”
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