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(1) To the king, [my lord]: (2) (This is) your servant Aha-lurš[i, your adorer], who daily prays to Bel and Nabû for the life of [the king, his lord]. May Nabû and Marduk bl[ess the king], my lord! (6) Bel and N[abû ...... (Break) (r 2) [As to what the king, my lord, wro]te to me: "Come [to my presence in Nisan]!" — (r 3) the work will be fini[shed] by the [...th] of intercalary Adar (XIII); I shall leave Dur-Šarruken on the 5th of extra Adar and shall be in the presence of the ki[ng my lord] even before the month of Nisan (I). (r 7) May Nabû and Marduk [bless] the king, my lord! (r 8) That…
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(b.e. 1) To the king, [my lord]: (2) (This is) your servant Aha-lurš[i, your adorer], who [daily] prays [to Bel and Nabû] for the life of the king, [his lord]. May Nabû and Marduk [bless the king, my lord]! (5) As to what the king my lord wrote to me: "[As soon as the work has been finished] and the god has taken his seat (in the temple), [come to my presence]!" — (7) Mardî the eunuch said: "I [shall go; instead of] your going, stay and off[iciate here so that when ......] and the god takes his seats [......], you can recite the proper formulae" — (10) I told [him], however: "Write down [in a…
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