e. Had the thief been a man who was a subject
of mine, who had gone down into thy ship and stolen thy money, I would
in that case have made good thy loss from the moneys in my own treasury,
until such time as it had been found out who it was that robbed thee,
and what his name was, but the thief who hath robbed thee belongeth to
thine own ship. Yet tarry here for a few days, and stay with me, so that
I may seek him out." So I tarried there for nine days, and my ship lay
at anchor in his port. And I went to him and I said unto him, "Verily
thou hast not found my money, [but I must depart] with the captain of
the ship and with those who are travelling with him." ... [The text here
is mutilated, but from the fragments of the lines that remain it seems
clear that Unu-Amen left the port of Dhir, and proceeded in his ship to
Tyre. After a short stay there he left Tyre very early one morning and
sailed to Kepuna (Byblos), so that he might have an interview with the
governor of that town, who was called Tchakar-Bal. During his interview
with Tchakar-Bal the governor of Tyre produced a bag containing thirty
_teben_ of silver, and Unu-Amen promptly seized it, and declared that he
intended to keep it until his own money which had been stolen was
returned to him. Whilst Unu-Amen was at Byblos he buried in some secret
place the image of the god Amen and the amulets belonging to it, which
he had brought with him to protect him and to guide him on his way. The
name of this image was "Amen-ta-mat." The text then proceeds in a
connected form thus:]

And I passed nineteen days in the port of Byblos, and the governor
passed his days in sending messages to me each day, saying, "Get thee
gone out of my harbour." Now on one occasion when he was making an
offering to his gods, the god took possession of a certain young chief
of his chiefs, and he caused him to fall into a fit of frenzy, and the
young man said, "Bring up the god.[1] Bring the messenger who hath
possession of him. Make him to set out on his way. Make him to depart
immediately." Now the man who had been seized with the fit of divine
frenzy continued to be moved by the same during the night. And I found a
certain ship, which was bound for Egypt, and when I had transferred to
it all my property, I cast a glance at the darkness, saying, "If the
darkness increaseth I will transfer the god to the ship also, and not
permit any other eye whatsoever to look upon him." Then the
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