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COURTESY OF HETHITOLOGIE-ARCHIV MAINZ (HETHITER.NET/:PHOTARCH PHB07314)

“WHY DO YOU SPEAK SUBMISSION?” Zazalla, the eloquent speaker of the senate of Ebla, asks the king in this fragment of the Song of Liberation (KBo XXXII 15 obverse). The heated debate about whether or not to release the people of Igingallish from their subjugation is the climactic moment of the composition.