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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant, Pulu. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and] Marduk bless the king, m[y lord]. (6) The regular sheep offering which we made before Nabû — its right kidney was missing. The slaughtered sheep is now in storage. Let them bring it where the king commands.
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(Beginning destroyed or not translatable) (4) The matter which [he ...] will not pl[ease] the king. (5) Now Pulu, the lamentation priest, has been acting arbitrarily in the temple of Nabû. Without the permission of the king, he tore out doorposts, fastened others, and cut down the ... in the Akitu house of N[abû] and the Akitu house of Tašmetu. As for the golden table of [Mar]duk, which Sargon had made, he assigned a goldsmith to it. He removed the old work and replaced it with new. (12) Furthermore, the dragons upon which Nabû stands, and the socle between them — he has made a sketch out of…