Thursday 25 February 2021

Takmahl in Kakol

Among so many useless, half translatable entries, I found one that is special:

When you came, you said to me as follows: “I will give Layla Accadis [when she comes] fine quality tritanium.” You left then but you did not do what you [promised] me. You put [ingots] which were not good before my slave Yit-Yin and said: “If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!”

Is there anyone among the merchants who trade in Gamdis who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my slave with contempt! On account of that one [trifling] [unknown volume unit] of silver which I owe you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the [palace] on your behalf 1,080 [pounds] of tritanium, and Oka-Ubam has likewise given 1,080 [pounds] of tritanium, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple.

How have you treated me for that tritanium? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore [my money] to me in full.

Take cognizance that [from now on] I will not accept here any tritanium from you that is not of fine quality. I shall [from now on] select and take the [ingots] individually in my own [yard], and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.

Again, the brackets indicate uncertainty in the translation. But the stellar maps are clear. The system Layla talks about is Gamdis. This means the Takmahl extended their influence well into the Kakol constellation.