King my
Lord. If none at all ... to me ... to march horses ... my land is
miserable. By my soul's life! if the King cared at heart for the life of
his servant, and of his chief city, he would have sent a garrison, and
they had guarded thy city and thy servant. That the King shall know ... of
our lands; and Egyptian soldiers (_bitati_) shall be ordered; and to save
all that live in his land, therefore it is spoken as a message to the King
(with thy messengers?) As to the ... of this dispute of _Khaia_ with the
city of _Simyra_, that they should send us without delay thirteen talents
(or pieces of gold): I gave the proclamation. The men of blood are named
in the letter to the city of _Simyra_.(230) It avails not. Ask _Khaia_ as
to the letter of our previous dispute with the city of _Simyra_--to satisfy
the King, and to give security to the King, they are sending again,
and..."

24 B. M.--This is broken at the top.

"And King my Lord, soldiers are moving to the city of _Gebal_, and behold
the city _Durubli_(231) has sent forth soldiers to war to the city
_Simyra_. If the heart of the King my Lord is toward the city of _Durubli_
my Lord will also order many soldiers, thirty chariots and an hundred
chief men of your land; and you will halt at the city _Durubli_, my Lord's
city. If the lands are to be defended, the King will order the departure
of Egyptian soldiers (_bitati_) to the city of _Gebal_, and (I doubt not?)
you will march to us. And I ... to slay him, and ... behold the King my
Lord ... faithful; and they have warred with the men _Kau Paur_(232)
(Egyptian magnates) of the King. Lo! they have slain _Biari_ the _Paur_
(magnate) of the King, and he has given gifts to my ... and they are
helping. And none are servants of the King. And evil in our eyes behold is
this. I am spoiled, and I fear lest ... no wish of the faithful chief be
granted to him. Lo! you will make my kindred to be afflicted. The King
shall arm the land ... thy soldiers great and small, all of them; and
_Pakhamnata_(233) did not listen to me and they do a deed that ... and
thou shalt tell him this, that he shall set free the city of _Simyra_; and
(the King) will listen to the message of his servant, and shall (send)
Egyptian soldiers. Behold he will say to the King that the Egyptian
soldiers have no corn or food to eat, all the enemies have cut off from
the midst of the cities of the King my Lord the food and the corn ... and
(I) have raised soldiers