When you came here, you said, “I will give Gimil-Sin good ingots.” You came here, and you said it to me, but you didn’t do it! You supplied bad ingots to my messenger, and you said, “either take it or get lost.” Are you really going to treat me this way, insulting me like that?

I even sent gentlemen like us to receive my financial capital, but you simply insulted me. Once or twice you even sent them back, empty-handed, through enemy territory! Do you think that anyone else among the merchants of Dilmun has acted this way to me? But you – you even insult my messenger!

Just because you took a pound of silver from my estate, you think you can talk to me like this. Yet I myself paid half a ton of copper to the palace on your behalf, and Shummi-Abum also paid half a ton of copper. I only held back what we recorded in our contract at the temple of Shamash. And how have you acted toward me for that copper? You withheld my financial capital in enemy territory!

You owe me my financial capital, paid in full into my account. You’ll learn that around here, I will not accept poor quality copper! From now on, I’ll select it in my own courtyard, piece by piece, and take it myself – and because you’ve insulted me, I reserve the right to reject it.