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+[{"id_text": "P500443", "project_name": "aemw/alalakh/idrimi", "raw_text": "I am Idrimi, the son of Il\u012b-ilimma, a servant of IM, Hebat and I\u0160TAR, the lady of Alalah, the lady, my lady. In Aleppo, the house of my father, a bad thing occurred, so we fled to the Emarites, sisters [o]f my mother, and settled at Emar.  Though my older brothers lived with me, none deliberated matters as I did.   I thought like this: \u201cWho indeed ... at his father\u2019s house, but who is nonetheless a servant among the people of Emar?\u201d  I took my horse, my chariot, and my chariot driver.  I crossed over into a desolate region, where I joined the Sutean pastoralists.  With them(text: him), to ....  I spent the night. The next day, I set out and journeyed to the land of Canaan.  The city of Ammiya sits in the land of Canaan, (and) in Ammiya dwell people originally from Aleppo (and) the lands of Muki\u0161, Niye, and Ama\u02bee.  They recognized me \u2013 that I was the son of their lord \u2013 and gathered around me, and in that way, I was elevated in rank.  For seven long years, I stayed among the habiru. I released birds (as auguries), I inspected (the livers of) lambs, and seven years (later), the Storm God turned toward me. I built ships.  I loaded soldiers onto the ships, I approached the land of Muki\u0161 by sea, and I reached dry land in front of Mount Hazzi (i.e., Mount Cassius/Jebel Aqraa).  I went up (the mountain), and when my land heard me, they brought oxen and sheep to me.  In one day, as one man, the lands of Niya, Ama\u02bee, (and) Muki\u0161 and the city of Alalah, my city, turned to me. My brothers heard (about this) and came to me.  My brothers toiled for me, (and) I protected my brothers. Furthermore, for seven years, Parattarna, the powerful king, the king of the Hurrians, made enemies for me.  In the seventh of the years, I sent a message to Parattarna, the king, king of the Umman-manda and told of the service of my forefathers \u2013 that my forefathers toiled for them so that our words were for the kings of the Hurrians.  It was good.  They established a powerful oath between them.  The powerful king listened to the service of our ancestors and the oath that was between them, and he respected the \u201cmark\u201d of the oath.  He accepted my greeting gift because of the matter of the oath and because of our service.  I enlarged ... for (lit. of) a sacrifice, and so I returned a lost house to him:  I seized a previously-abandoned hem for him oath in my status as a loyal retainer, and then I was king for Alalah. Kings to my right and my left came up here to me, and thus I was made equal to them. Because the city wall of the forefathers lay tumbled on the ground, I caused (bricks) to rise up from on the ground, and I set them (bricks?) up high as the sky I took troops, went up to the land of Hatti, and captured seven cities:  Pa\u0161\u0161ahe, Damarutla, Huluhhan, Zila, I\u02bee, Uluzila, and Zaruna.  I captured these cities, and I destroyed others.  The land of Hatti did not gather and come against me.  I did what I wished.  I carried off captives and took all types of goods and possessions.  I distributed (the plunder) to my auxiliaries, my brothers, and my allies.  I myself took their weapon(s), though. I returned to the land of Muki\u0161 and entered Alalah, my city.  With the captives and livestock, with all the goods and possessions that I brought down from the land of Hatti, I had a house built.  I made my throne like the thrones of kings.  I made my brothers like the brothers of kings, my sons like their sons, and my companions like their companions. As for the inhabitants whose dwelling was (already) in my land, in kindness, I caused them to reside.  I housed even those who lacked a dwelling.  I stabilized my land and made my cities like our previous ones. And just as our father established the signs of the gods of Alalah, I was regularly performing the offerings (Akk. gloss: the offerings) for our grandfather that he regularly caused to be performed.  I regularly performed these (rites), and I entrusted them to IM-nerari, my son. Whoever removes this statue of mine \u2013 may Heaven curse him, (and) the Underworld gather up his offspring.  May the gods of heaven and earth measure out his reign and his land for him.  Whoever alters it (the inscription?) or erases <it> \u2013 may IM, the lord of heaven and earth (Akk. gloss: earth), and the great gods, destroy his name and his seed from his land. \u0160arruwa, the scribe, is a servant of the Storm God, Sun God, Moon God, and I\u0160TAR.  \u0160arruwa is the scribe who wrote (the inscription on) this statue. May the gods of heaven and earth keep him alive (and) protect him.  May they be good to him.  May the Sun God, lord of above and below, lord of ghosts, be the one who revives him. I was king for 30 years.  I wrote my labors on myself.  May it encourage them (the descendants) so that they (the descendants) may pray to me regularlLine truncated