ounds?) of bronze again. And
your envoy carries now gifts--a couch of strong wood, enriched with gold,
and chariots enriched with gold, and two horses, and forty-two (vases?),
and fifty gold (vases?), and two cups, and fourteen pieces of strong wood,
and seventeen large vessels of good make ... from the (?); four (vases?),
and four gold (vases?) ... the gifts of which none ..."

The next thirteen lines are almost entirely destroyed. The letter
continues on the back of the tablet:

"... _Alasiya_ my merchants with thy merchants, and ... with them; and
truly there is good faith ... and my envoy will go to your city, and your
envoy shall go to my city. Moreover, why will you not despatch for me
(unguents and vases?) I (say), and I will order what you wish, and that
which is useful (serving well?) in fulfilment of the decree, I order to be
given thee. Behold you sit on the throne of your Kingdom."

13 B.--A short fragment, too broken to read, includes the names of the
countries of _Egypt_ and of _Alasiya_, with salutations. It includes a
reference to merchants, and apparently to presents, nine lines in all.

14 B.--The writing and the clay appear to show that this also came from
_Alasiya_. It included twenty-two lines, but is much broken. The following
may be read:

"Lo! as a present to thee I have sent five pieces of copper, three
(pounds) of good copper, one (?), one (weapon?)--a shipload. Also, my
brother, these men of this royal ship ... and as for thee, the ship ...
speedily ... is sent. Thou art my brother. You desire a salutation, and I
have given it to thee. This man, the servant of the King my Lord, does not
he approach before them? and thou, my brother, send him speedily (under
escort?)."

16 B.--The ordinary salutation is much broken, but the writing, and the
clay of the tablet, seem to show that the letter came from _Alasiya_. The
second paragraph mentions countries called _Umdhi_ ... and _Tim_ ...
possibly Hamath and Damascus. The third paragraph continues:

"And now behold why do you ... your fortress more than my fortress; and
who is it that has vexed us? It is the abode of a hundred sons of
violence. So now ... my brother, because of this, the city _Khumme_ has
meditated evil, and if ... why not gather, and ... to preserve, since it
is necessary that they should be protected from what ..."

The remainder, including a note for the King's scribe, is too broken to
read.

17 B.--A mere fragment, appare