my envoy. It is no use: the soldiers
of the garrison failed with him; and they have defeated me; and so the
evil is done; and they make me flee from the city: it is not defended from
the power of the enemy. Now I say do not prevent a descent to the Lands of
Egypt, and a settlement. And you will help me very much. My great men
consent; and the King my Lord will consider. Lo! the Gods of _Gebal_ (be
with him) and you will help me very much; and 'It is well' they have said:
good are my wishes to the Gods. So now I shall not come down to the
presence of the King my Lord. But now my son, a servant of the King my
Lord, I am sending to the presence of the King my Lord, and the King shall
hear the desire of his faithful servant, and appoint us Egyptian soldiers
(_bitati_). And request (has been made) to the King of _Babeli_
(Babylon,(282) an ally of Egypt); but he ... no soldiers of his host ...
in her midst.... Egyptian soldiers of the King my Lord ... to come to her.
Behold the entanglement of the chiefs friendly to my (throne?) in the
midst of the city. A son of one of the chiefs is a friend in her midst.
The Egyptian soldiers are strong; and they have heard of those who are
reaching her; and the city has remained to the King my Lord; and the King
my Lord knows that it is against him that they have (cried war?). Now I am
going to a town (that) I defend for my Lord, determined in heart, before
the King my Lord, that the chief city shall not be given to the sons of
Abdasherah. So my brother has fought him: the city is stubborn against the
sons of _Abdasherah_. He is not able to leave the town,(283) when there is
plenty of silver and gold in her midst in the Temple of Gods, plenty of
everything if they take her. O King my Lord what is done to his servant by
them is done. But appoint the town of _Buruzizi_(284) for my dwelling. Lo!
_Khamu_ my son (sets forth?) the request in the presence. Behold! this
dwelling of the chief city--the town of _Buruzizi_--the sons of _Abdasherah_
have been afraid to smite. Lo! _Khamu_ my son is going to the presence:
for the sons of _Abdasherah_ have pricked against me, and none remains to
mourn, O King, for me. And I mourn to the King my Lord. Behold the city of
_Gebal_ is a city truly like our eye: there is plenty of all that is royal
in her midst: the servants of the chief city were at peace, the chiefs
were our well-wishers before time when the King's voice was for all. It is
the chief city of th