Ilimilku the Scribe · a new plain-English translation from the original language
[. . .] lapis lazu[li] [. . .]
[. . .] Mightiest Baal —
. . . [into] the midst of the Beloved of El,
Yam; [. . . down] upon the crown of his skull —
the god [Haddu(?)] on the far height, in the mountain,
as . . . the gods on Sapan.
He passed from [ci]ty to city;
he turned from to[wn] to town.
Sixty-six cities he seized,
seventy-seven towns —
eighty, Baal str[uck;]
ninety, Baal drove ou[t.]
Then Baal [ent]ered the house — Baal, into the midst of
the house — and Mightiest Baal
spoke: 'I will install it, Kothar, this very(?)
day — Kothar, this very hour:
let a window be opened in the house,
a casement within the pala-
ce; yes, let a rift be [o]pened in the clouds,
according to the word of Kothar-and-Hasis!'
Kothar-and-Hasis laughed;
he lifted his voice and cried:
'Did I not tell you, O Migh-
tiest Baal? You would come back, Baal,
to my word.' He opened a win-
dow in the house, a casement
within the palace. Baal opened
a rift in the clouds.
His holy voice Baal gave forth;
Baal repeated the is[sue] of his lips —
his ho[ly] voice — and the earth quaked;
the issue of his [li]ps, and the mountains shook(?).
The ancient . . . [. . .] —
the high places of the ear[th]
tottered. The enemies of Baal seized
the forests; the haters of Haddu, the flanks of
the mountain. And Mightiest Baal
spoke: 'Enemies of Haddu, why do you tremble?
Why tremble at the weapon(?) of the Defender?'
The eye of Baal went ahead of his hand,
when the cedar-shaft swung in his right hand.
So Baal took his seat in his house:
'King am I — or no king? —
over the earth is my dominion established!
I will send no tribute-runner to the son of
the gods, Mot — no herald to the Beloved
of El, the Hero. Let Mot call
in his throat(?); let the Beloved brood
in his inmost self(?): I alone am he who is ki-
ng over the gods — who truly fattens
gods and men, who sat-
[isf]ies the multitudes of the earth!' Aloud to his l-
[ad]s Baal indeed cried: 'Look,
[Gapn]-and-Ugar, sons of gloom —
[the day's kins]men(?), sons of darkness, lof-
[ty,] [first in ra]nk, wings of reckoning(?) —
[scorching] [are the bonds] in the clouds
[. . .] beneath
[. . .] . . .
[. . .] . . .