Ilimilku the Scribe · a new plain-English translation from the original language
'[Kap]tor is the throne [where he sits,] [Memphis] [the land] [of his heritage] —
across a thousand fields, ten thou[sand acres.] [At] [the feet] [of Kothar]
bow and fall, pro[strate yourselves] [and] [honor] [him,]
and say to Koth[ar-and-Hasis,] [repeat] [to] [Hayyin]
of the deft ha[nds:] ['Message] [of Bull] [El] [the Father,]
word of the Kindly O[ne] [your] [begetter:]
. . . Kothar, my son(?) —
set a shelter(?) . . .
make ready, among the peaks, a dwel[ling.]
Your haste, your speed, your ru[sh!] [To me] [let your feet] [run,]
to me let your legs hasten, [toward] [the mountain,]
Mount Ks. For a wo[rd] [I have,] [and I will tell you] —
a matter, and I will repeat it to you: [a word] [of tree] [and] [a whisper] [of stone,]
the converse of heaven with [earth,] [of the deeps] [with the stars] —
a word that people do not kn[ow,] [that the] [multitudes of the] [earth] [do not understand.]
Come, and I myself will reve[al it.]'
And Kothar-and-Hasis answered: '[Go,] [go,] [attendants] [of the gods!]
You two may linger, but I am off — [I have set out] [for Kaptor.]
Kaptor is far away, O gods; Memph[is] [is far,] [O divinities] —
two lengths beneath [the springs] [of the earth,] [three] [spans]
of the caverns.' Then indeed he se[t] [his face] [toward the Kindly One,]
El the Compassionate, toward the mounta[in,] [Mount] [Ks.]
He came to the tent of E[l] [and] [entered] [the dwelling] [of the King,]
the Father of Years. At [the feet] [of El] [he bowed] [and] [fell,]
he prostrated himself [and] [honored him.]
Bull El [his] fa[ther spoke:]
'Quickly let a h[ouse be built,] [quickly] [let a palace be raised]
in the midst of . . .
a son(?) . . .
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