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(1) [To] the king, my lord: [your servant Ṭab]-šar-Aššur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) Paqaha, the master-builder in charge of the ditch came and had an audience with me, saying: "The king has added to the men working on the ditch but there are no (work) leaders. The governor of Talmusa is not able to direct the men, he said to me as follows: (14) '1,000 men [...... (Break) (r 2) ...... we [can]not do the work.'" (r 3) Paqaha told me: "I (must) personally take the lead of 100 men and spend a full month on the work. Let the king my lord call the leaders to account for the fact that I…
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(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Ṭab-šar-Aššur]. Good health to [the king], my lord! (4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "When are they going to cast the gate column-bases for the portico of the hilānu palaces?" (9) I asked Aššur-šumi-ke'in and the artists, who told me this: "We are going to cast four column-bases of bronze for two hilānu palaces in the month of Marchesvan (VIII); the small lions of the hilānu(s) will be cast together with the big lions in the spring." (18) I asked the son of B[el-...] about the work on the temple doors: "When are you going to finish your…
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