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(1) [Your servant Bel-iqiša]: I would gladly die for [the king of the universe], m[y lord! May] Nabû and Marduk bless [the king of the universe], my [lo]rd! In the morning and in the evening I pray to [Bel and] Nabû for the good [health of the k]ing, my lord. (8) [As soon as I] heard that ... (Break) (r 5) [Perhaps the king, my lord], will say: "I did not agree [...]." (r 7) [...] an inauspicious time (r 8) [...] Let me send/write [to the king], my [lord] (r 9) [...] and Bel-iqiša (r 10) [...]: the king will kill me. (r.e. 11) [...] ...
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(1) Yo[ur ser]vant In[a-tešî-eṭir: I would gladly die for] the king of the lands, my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk bless] the king of the lands, my lord! (4) The report on Babylon [is excellent]. The Babylonians are hap[py. They go] daily to the tem[ple] of their lords, Bel and Nabû [...], to Esaggil. [They pr]ay daily to [Mardu]k and Zarpa[nitu] for the good health [of the king of the la]nds, my lord. (Rest destroyed)
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