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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [reliable speech]; the land will become happy; the g[ods will remember] Akkad favorably; the king will reach complete dominion; the cattle of Akkad [will lie in the steppe] undisturbed. (5) If at the moon's appearance one horn m[eets] the other: the flood will come. (7) Earlier, I wrote to the king my lord as follows: "On the 14th day one god will be seen with the other." (r 1) If the moon reaches the sun and [follows it closely]: there will be truth in the land; [the son] will speak [the truth with his father. — On the 14th day one god] is seen [with the other]. (r…
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