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(Beginning destroyed) (1) ... wrote to] you: "The wife of [the] Treasurer and [her] daughters should go [to] Assyria"; (4) you wrote the sealed royal order and dispatched it to Bel- duri, (but when) I sent my me[ssenger] to Damascus, [he] gave [him the wife] only. (9) I have written to [... abo]ut the daughters whom he he[ld back ... (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) ...] stay [in ......]. Now he has do[ne the work (incumbent) up]on you plus the work ass[ignment that was ... to] your [...]; [your servants tra]ded [the work ass]ignment with 21 [...] and shirked doing the work. (7) [You wrote me] that in addition to the 500 [logs of ...] and the 500 of [..., another ...] have been piled up on the river bank. [That's exactly] why the governor of Til-Barsip did [...]! I (gave the order): "These [should g]o to [...] Aššur-šarru-uṣur plus the [...] who are with him, and [...] the l[ogs into ...] of 40 (pieces) each." To no avail; [they…