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~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1
SAA 01 143. Straw for the Glazing of Bricks (ABL 1180)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [On the ... th, after ......] we had finished the (city) wall, [we] got [busy], gathered men for the straw that the king had given to us in Halahhu, and went to carry it over. (8) The men working in the ditch, [of] a single prefect and 125 in number, have [neither] delivered straw of their own nor are they carrying that of Halahhu. By means of what will they glaze bricks for their work-quota tomorrow? What does the king my lord say? (r 1) As to the replacement for the dead concerning which the king told the magnates: "Provide the replacement!" — nobody has given us…
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