Greetings and Other Matters
Late 7th–Early 6h Century BCE
Your son, Yehukal, sends his blessings for the welfare of Gedalyahu son of Elyair and for the welfare of your house. I bless you to YHWH. And now, behold my lord has done [ . . . ] May YHWH recompense my lord [ . . . ] Edom [ . . . ] As YH[WH] lives (?) [ . . . ] . . .
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Letter to Chaim Weizmann
The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
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Another Shipment of Wine
In the ninth year,
From Siptan, to Baalzamar:
A jar of aged wine
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.