71 B.—“_Ribadda_ ... to the King my Lord ... at the feet ... seven times and seven times(281) ... I send and I repeat (the message), and you listen not thereto ... The King my Lord shall hear the message, and it explains to the _Paur_ (magnate) ... to the Lords of the Palace, because in vain the soldiers of garrison have hasted to him. And you will remember my ... Lo! it is not granted to my sons to take root for me, as the prophets have perceived of old; and the race of the foes (will) remain. I being asked am going to those who are free, to _Khamu_ my son, and to my younger brother, who have both left the city of _Gebal_. There was good-fortune for the sons of _Abdasherah_, as to the subjugation of the capital city; behold my brother has commanded, he went out as 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 the land they have wasted for me—and is none of his. Will not this desire prevail with the King? Behold thy servant, my son, I am despatching to the presence of the King my Lord; and there shall be ordered him protection of the King by soldiers ... you will come marching to us. For the King my Lord will protect me. And restore thou me to the chief city, and to my house as of old. O King my Lord ... of the King my Lord in her midst; and ... the city from (shame?) ... as ... _Khamu_ ... till ... shall hear ... their servant ... to her midst ... the soldiers (_bitati_) of the King my Lord; and you will strengthen the soldiers of this place speedily ... the chief city, as I trust; and you will march to the city ... Lo! what he is saying in the presence of the King cannot it be done? O King my Lord ... the chief city of a neighbor (_Gur_); and which has been laid low to the demands of those that hate the same ... it is not just to see what is done to the lands ... the soldiers of the King my Lord; and she trusts the King my Lord.”