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The Alphabetic Akkadian Translation
In 2015 David Olmsted proposed a new translation based upon an alphabetic variety of Akkadian, the Semitic empire language of Mesopotamia including that of Babylon and Assyria. Below is the translation which is found and justified on his website. His translation shows a starving people in revolt. The author assigns this inscription to the time of a ten year drought (850-840 BCE) which was also the time of the prophet Elijah and queen Jezebel (1 Kings chapters 17 and 18). This drought is confirmed by sediment cores from the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret). A word referencing King David does not exist in this translation:


 * 1) … ancestors … cries of pain … pure Guardians of the Mortal Elements (Laḫmu, does not include fire)….
 * 2) Moreover, the few provisions [remaining didn’t stop] the fathers cries of pain to Alu (to become the word "God" in the Bible) from impoverishment so Ya’u (linguistic variant of Yahweh) let it flood …
 * 3) Alu’s divine messengers called the deaths by bringing the omens of the cosmic waters.
 * 4) The father’s painful cries [of fear] wherever the king was absent…..
 * 5) Unfavorable yet good unconfused entrails revealed a flood of water fate threads.
 * 6) No tablet has been written and for the final report about the surrounding rebellious [people] ….
 * 7) Slander and Alu’s command about the land… absolve the guilt of the revolt ….
 * 8) The flood of the bird-shaped entrails and Alu’s water uqu (omens?) … impoverished would starve …
 * 9) Slander, not exuberant affliction and ….
 * 10) The (sky-dome) doors brought the fate threads wherever ….
 * 11) Become friends with the divine messengers “ or else …”
 * 12) Let the diviner … doors …
 * 13) Tend to the destitute ….
 * 1) Tend to the destitute ….

The Alphabetic Akkadian Translation
In 2015 David Olmsted proposed a new translation based upon an alphabetic variety of Akkadian, the Semitic empire language of Mesopotamia including that of Babylon and Assyria. Below is the translation which is also found on his website:


 * 1) Side by side liver parts give the judgment of the Healer (probably a reference to Ayu) about angry waters of conflict
 * 2) To befriend without the waters of the liver parts is to be permanently crushed
 * 3) No divine messenger ritual takes refuge in the light
 * 4) No good divine messenger takes refuge in submersion
 * 5) No good divine messenger takes refuge in very dark fluids
 * 6) No Divine messenger becomes diminished from angry waters
 * 7) No good divine messenger takes ……
 * 8) Be informed (the vertical letters)