Ilimilku the Scribe · a new plain-English translation from the original language
And Koth[ar-and-Ha]sis answered:
'You will come back, Baal, to [my word.]'
Kothar-and-Hasis repeated his speech:
'Hear, pray, O Migh[ti]est Baal:
shall I not set a case[ment] in the house,
a window within the [pal]ace?'
And Migh[tiest] Baal answered:
'Do not set a ca[semen]t in the house,
a windo[w] wi[thin] the [pa]lace,
lest [Pidra]y, Daughter of Light, sli[p out(?)] —
lest . . . [Talla]y, Daughter of Rain —
[lest(?)] the [Belo]ved of El, Yam,
[. . .] revile me and spit(?) . . .'
[. . .] And Kothar-
[and-Hasis] answered: 'You will come back, Baal, to my word.'
[The gods(?)] built his house;
[they] raised his palace.
They [we]nt to Lebanon for its timber,
to [Si]ryon for its choicest cedar —
yes, [Le]banon for its timber,
Siryon for its choicest cedar.
Fire was set in the house,
flame in the palace.
Look: a day and a second, the fire
ate into the house, the flame
into the palace; a third and a fourth day,
the [fi]re ate into the house,
the flame into the palace;
a fifth and a sixth day, the fire ate
[into] the house, the flame
with[in] the [pa]lace. Then look:
on the seventh d[ay,] the fire withdrew
from the house, the fla[m]e from the palace —
the silver had turned to sheets, the gold
was turned to bricks! Mightiest
Baal rejoiced: 'My house I have built
of silver; my palace
of gold!' The furnishings of [his] house [Ba]al
made ready; Haddu made ready the [furni]shings
of his palace. He slaughtered great oxen [and]
sheep too; he felled bulls [and]
fatling rams, calves a
year old, lambs — a throng of k[i]ds.
He summoned his brothers into his house, his kin
into the midst of his palace; he summoned
the seventy sons of Athirat.
He supplied the gods with rams — and wine;
he supplied the goddesses with ewes — [and wine;]
he supplied the gods with oxen — and wi[ne;]
he supplied the goddesses with cows — [and wine;]
he supplied the gods with seats — and wine;
he supplied the goddesses with thrones;
he supplied the gods with jars of wine;
he supplied the goddesses with pitchers.
Until the gods had eaten and drunk,
and were supplied with a suckling breast-cut,
with a salted knife, a sli[ce] [of fat]-
ling. They drank [wi]ne from flag[ons] —
[from] a cup of gold, the bl[ood] [of vines.]
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