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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adda-hati. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) My [guard] is in excellent condition, the who[le dist]rict of [Hamath] is well. [The king], my [lord], can be glad. (9) We have not heard anything s[pecific] about the [Ara]bs si[nce the king], my lord, [went] to [...]; all is well.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adda-hati. Good health to the [king, my lord]! (4) [My gua]rd is in excellent condition, the whole district of Hamath is well. The king, my lord, can be glad. (11) We have not heard [anything specific about the Arabs si]nce the king, [my lord, went to] Assyria; all is well.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The town of Hēsa, a road station of mine, lacks people; the postmaster and the commander of the recruits are there alone and cannot attend to it (properly). Now, let me get together 30 families and place them there. There are men of Nabû-ṣalla the prefect living in Hēsa, a cohort of craftsmen; let him move them out, settle them in the town of Argite, and give them fields and gardens. (17) If it is acceptable to the king, my lord, let them send a letter to Nabû-uṣalla the prefect, and let me appoint Ia'iru…
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(1) [To the king, my lord]: your ser[vant Bel-liqbi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! The king's land and dis[trict] are well. (6) Arabs have en[tered] into the interior (of the province), but the rains have arrived [...] and they are coming and going. (12) The ... [...] who entered the city of [...... (Break) (r 3) I [keep watch] over the desert; the watch is [as strict as possible].
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi. Good health to the ki]ing, [my lord]! The k[ing's land and d]istrict [are well]. (5) [The Ar]abs are settled on the other side of the [H]adina river; they come [...] ... and go, everything is [fine]. (8) I have driven the farmer(s) and gardener(s) [of Ammi]li'ti son of Amiri [out of] my towns and torn down a [...] of sheep he had constructed. Now, he came to me saying: "Why have you expelled my subjects? I shall write to the Palace!" I proposed a bargain, saying: "Your subjects molested my subjects. But since you are the king's servant, I…
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(Beginning destroyed) (2) ......] the son of [......] 200 m[en ...] of Tarṣ[i-...] a kin[sman of ...] are indeed [...] at the foot of [Mt. ...]; stranglers [......] in Mt. Nipur. (10) Ammili'ti [...] is encamped outside the city of Rablâ, pestilence-stricken. He came to see me and I [asked him]: "Did [...] really come from [......? Let ...] come to me, I shall not place [...] in it." (r 7) What the king [......] a messenger [...... (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! The watch of the des[ert is strict]; the king, my lord, can be [pleased]. (6) The king my lord ordered [me to] give bread to the chariot troops. Now, (when) [PN] came, I told him [...] but he said: "The king has given orders to me and I will take two [month's worth] of each (provision)." I did not agree to give it to him, so he went and opened a silo in one of my villages, brought in his measurers and poured out [x] sound men's worth of (grain). (15) I went and remonstrated him, saying: "Why did you self-…
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(Beginning destroyed) (2) Right now [......] perhaps [......] the fodder which [...... he]re. (5) [......] is demanding the food of the chariot troops saying: "You will give food [......]!" The king [my lord knows that we reaped our] s[own fields] together and st[ored] (the yield) in the villages. Mine is on [...] side, and they do not a[gree to give away] (any of) theirs, saying: "[You will] not [touch] our harvest." (13) Whether [......] or not [......]. When [......], 700 (homers) of [......] they reaped [......] their sown fields. (r 5) I do want to [feed] the king my lord's hors[es], but…
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant ...]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (3) As to these people, [the king's] subjects, about whom the king my lord wrote to me, none of them are their servants. The king, my lord, should question these people who came: not a single man among them is a farmer, they are their litigants and creditors, relatives of the (king) of Carchemish. They will write down their report and communicate it to the Palace. (12) Now, people have got afraid at the king their lord's ilku duty [and grumbled]: "Why are they [persecuting] us month after month?" They keep…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-ibni. [Good health] to the king, my lord. (4) [As to] the eunuchs [of] the household of Aššur-ilai [about whom the king] wrote to me: "[Let them br]ing them here!" — (8) I have just sent to the palace with a kallapu messenger [a total of four] eunuchs: [Urda]-Issar, a cupbearer; Ṣilli-Šamaš, a confectioner; Bel-deni-amur, a cook; and [P]atamû, a eunuch. (r 5) Let the king my lord question them. They are subjects of the city of Til-Barsip.
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(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Adad-ibni. [Good health t]o the king, my lord. (4) [As to what] the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The chief masons and ...] men from the city of Nampigi [in] the Qipanu land [have come] to me saying: 'The chief [......' (Rest destroyed or too fragmentary for translation)
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(1) To the king, my lord: your [serva]nt Inurta-il[ai]. (Break) (r 1) ......] have cr[ossed] the river on [the ...th] of Nisan and [left] for the Palace to greet (the king).
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(Beginning destroyed) (5) [x eld]ers accompanied by [x] mul[es], [x do]nkeys and [PN], the son of the (royal) delegate; (Break with traces of numbers and personal names) (r 1) Five [...] 30 [...... have set out] from Til-Barsip on [the ...th of Nisan], crossed the river and left for [the Palace] to greet (the king).
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Go]od he[alth to the king, my lord]! May Sin [and Nikkal] bless the king, my lord! (7) Se'-gabbari, the priest of Nerab, a servant of the king, together with Nur-S[in] the prefect and Dadi-ibni, a servant of the governor of A[rpa]d [......] fro[m M]elid [...... (Break) (r 1) Let them accept and assign [... where] the king my lord [a]sked, and let him go to his duty and invoke blessings upon the king my lord before Sin and Nikkal.
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(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: yo[ur servant] Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! (6) (As to) the cousin(s) of Giri-Dadi, the city-ruler of Til-Turi, who petitioned the king, my lord, and about whom the king my lord wrote to me: "Give them back whatever Giri-Dadi has taken from them" — (15) I gave it back to them. (Now) Se'-lukidi, a cousin of Giri-[Dadi] has came [and said to me]: (Break) (r 2) "[......] Let them come and pluck out the [...] of Ta[bal], lest the king should return from Dur-Iakin and deport us; Giri-Dadi spoke nonsense, becaus…
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(1) To the Vizier, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the Vizier, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the Vizier, my lord! (7) Dadi-suri son of Ra'sunu, from Til-Barsip, came to me in Harran and said to me: "Gabbi-amur said that Ra'sunu [......" (Break) (r 2) Two days later he came (again), saying: "I accused my father wrongly." (r 6) I have now arrested him and put him in irons, and am detaining his father in my presence. Let my lord write to me what the Vizier my lord commands. My lord should ask Remanni-Adad the recruitment officer; he heard his statement.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! (6) [As to] what the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e: "Give 200 homers of oil [i]n Til-Barsip to Kiṣir-Aššur, governor of Dur- Šarruken," — [I set asi]de 200 homers of oil and delivered it. (13) I have now written the oil consumption and the oil remaining on a writing-board and am herewith sending it to the king, my lord.
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord!] (6) [As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me]: "Give [cloaks to the men of] Arbai and Šamaš-ilai!" — (10) just as the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have sent 200 cloaks to the At[...eans] who are in the city of [...], and given 200 cloaks to the men of Epâ who are in Til-Barsip; [all together I have g]iven out 400 cloaks. (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Ever] since I [came ...], a runaway [......] Nani (and) A[...], the cupbearer [of ...], the son of the father-in-law of [...]. I have made them enter the [royal] corps [...] of Harran on account of the [missing] cavalry[men]. Let the king enquire and investigate (the matter), and let them return the men to the royal corps. (14) As to the people of Nani about whom the king my lord wrote to me: "Give any of his people back to him!" — (18) The day he was deported, the Commander-in-Chief and Zeru- ibni called him and questioned him, saying: "Perhaps there is still some…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal [bless] the king, my lord! (6) As to [the king my lo]rd's command: "Review t[hese] persons whom the Commander-in-Chief b[rought forth] and ex[tract] men [from their mid]st" — (10) I [sec]retly [ask]ed and questioned the el[der]s [of] Tarqunani, saying: "Did the chief [......] from where you came forth?" They (replied): "[......] the city of Tas [from which] we ca[me ......]" (r 1) Nobody has died or escaped since I reviewed them. [Thanks to] the gods of the king, my lord, able-bodied men…
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant] N[abû-pašir]. Goo[d health to the ki[ng, my lord]! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! (7) As to the [capt]ives [whom the king], my lo[rd, sent] to me, [...] to the captiv[es of the king], my lord [...... (Break) (r 1) Let the king, my lord, write to me what the [king] commands.
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... about whom] the king, my lord, sa[id]: "Let [......] with them and [...] the refugees!" — (4) they do not agree to [......]. When the men [...... (Rest destroyed)
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin] and N[ikkal bless] the king, my lord! (6) [As t]o that shepherd [about whom I wrote] to the king, my lord], he is now pres[ent ...... (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) ......] I have s[ent ...] to [the king, my lord]. (3) As to the [...] official of Šarru-[...] about whom the king [my lord] wrote [to me]: "Why has he not come?" I am right now sending him to the king, my lord.
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(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Nabû-pašir. [Good health] to the king, my lord! [May Sin and Nikka]l bless the king, my lord! (6) [......] of the king, my lord [...... (Rest destroyed)
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(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant N[abû-pašir]. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! May Adad and Buru bless the king, my lord! (8) I have finished the city of Duru. The ... has been plastered; ......; I have installed the drain-pipes [...... (Rest broken away)
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(1) [To] the king, my lord: your [servant] Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! The land of the king my lord is well. (7) The following are the measurements of the beams (for) the doo[rs]: (9) One beam: length 26 royal cubits (13 m), width one cubit (0,5 m), thickness one bone (32 cm); (13) One beam: length [2]1 royal cubits [...... (Break) (r 2) [Four] beams: length [x] cubits, width [one] cubit, thickness [one] cubit; (r 6) [two] beams: length [x] cubits, width [one] cubit, thickness one cubit; (r 9) [x] beams: length [x] cubits, width…
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(1) Height[ 1]3 cubits (6,5 m), width four cubits (2 m): the main building. (2) Height [x cubits], width four cubits: the small building. (3) Height [x cubits], width three cubits and a span: four double(-door)s; (4) Height [x cubits] and a span, width three cubits: two ditto; (5) [In all eight] double-doors. (6) Heig[ht x cubits], (width) three cubits and a span: one single (door); (7) [Height x cubits], width three cubits: 12 ditto; (8) [Height x cubits], width three cubits: 15 ...; (r 1) [In all 28] single doors. (r 2) [Total 36] doors.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Zeru-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to Erra-gamil, the Ninevite scribe about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "He is there; summon him, get hold of him and send him to [the revi]ew!" — (10) I summoned him, and thoroughly questioned Nabû-šumu-uṣur and the scribes from Nemed-Ištar and Laqê, servants of the king my lord, (who told me): (r 1) "He came two years ago, got a position with Ilai-Bel, and worked for a year on his behalf. Last year, while Ilai-Bel still was alive, a tracker came and took him away. They deported him to the Land be…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Zeru-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to Marduk-eriba about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, if I have put Marduk-eriba in irons, let them release his shackles and put them on my own feet! If not, let them pull the tongue out of the throat of the man who lied to the king, my lord! (11) The brother of Marduk-eriba serves as a palace chariot fighter, and he himself has been with me as a recruit. The deputy of the rab-mūgi officer transferred his elder brother to Arrapha because of [...], and last year he took Marduk-eriba as a…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Zeru-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the (stone) borers about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have just sent five borers to the king, my lord. (Rest destroyed)
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(1) [To the king, my] lord: yo[ur servant] Zeru-ibni. [Good h]ealth to the king, my lord! (4) The king, my lord, knows that ... [...... (Break) (r 2) ...] about whom/which the king my lord wr[ote to me], Zarî has just left [for] the king, my lord. Let the king, my lord, ask [him].
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(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [PN]. Good health to the king, my [lord]. May Adad and Buru bless the king, my lord! (6) Having left the king my lord's presence on the 23rd of Iyyar (II), I entered the city of Hindana on the 30th. Hindana is well, the land of Suhu is well, the forts of the king my lord are well. The king, my lord, can be [glad]. (Break) (r 2) ...] did not s[ay ...] like t[his ...] (r 4) On the 3rd of [Sivan] (III) I left Hindana on my chariot and drove off. May Nabû-dur-makie not succeed in ousting me from the king my lord's presence!
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(1) [To the king, my lord]: your servant [PN]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! May Adad and Buru bless [the king], my lord! (6) On the 10th Dadâ [bro]ught me a sealed order of the king [my lo]rd concerning the news of [...... Ad]ad-ir[i ...... (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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(1) To the king, [our lord]: Your servants [Nabû-pašir] and Nabû-dur-ma[kie]. Good health to [the king, our lord]! May Sin and N[ikkal] bless the king, our lord! (4) As to the ditch about which the king wrote to us, we made a start on the ditch on the 10th, and on the 8th, as soon as we had got the men organized, we started measuring the Patti-Illil canal. As soon as we have found out its measurements and where it is easy and where difficult (to navigate), we shall write again to the king, my lord. (r 6) Right now Nabû-bel-šumate of Birat is going to appeal to the king about Galṣabri, a town o…
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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] in Hin[dana] (3) [......] you listen to him [...] (4) [......] from the city of [...] (5) [......] Hinda[na ...] (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) in Hi[ndana ......] (2) When I [was ...] in the king my lord's presence, [the king my lord] said to [his servant] as follows: "[...] to the city of [......] not [...... (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] the offici[als] (2) [......] will assemble (3) [......] I will go [to S]uhu (4) [......] I will return (Rest destroyed)
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(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Ila['i-Bel]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! (4) Išmanni-Aššur the [...... (Break) (r.e. 1) ...] no luck [...] horse [......]
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(1) A letter from Ila'i-Bel [to] Nabû-duru-uṣur. [Good] health to my lord! (4) Tarriki-hallu, a trainer of [...] horses [is] on the dr[inking place wh]ich my lord ask[ed for]; a messenger [of my lord] should come [and ...]. (10) Another matter: the sealed documents [...... (Rest destroyed)
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Išmanni-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the gardeners about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, right now Adad-nuri [...... (Break) (r 2) ......] saw ... (SPACER)
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(1) [To the king, my lord]: your [servan]t Išmanni-[Aššur. Good] health to the [king], m[y lord]! (5) [As to] what the king, [my lord, wrote to me ...... (Rest destroyed)
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(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant Išm[anni-Aššur]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (4) As to what the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "The servants [...] of the son of Za[baba-... have ...ed] eight minas [of ...] entrusted to [......]," — (9) two men [...... (Break) (r 2) Let him give to [the] king's men [......] 30 persons [......] one mina and ten [shekels of ...] retur[ned ......] agree [......]. (r 8) The king should decide between [......] and eight [minas of ...].
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant(s) Aplaiu, Šarru-lu-dari and Išmanni-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) The deportees [arrived] on the 10th of Tammuz (IV); the horses [......] fodder [......] in our towns. (10) The harvest of the deportee[s ...] had come out well; they brought along all the food they had. The deportees and the pack animals are eating stored grain [...] like the king's servants. (16) The deportees and the pack animals are [well]; the king, my lord, [can be] pleased.
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(1) To Nabû-duri-uṣur, my lord: your servant Rimutte. Good health to my lord! (4) They wrote to me from the Palace: "Write down all the locusts that you collect and all that you kill, and send (the information) to the Palace!" Now then I am writing it down and sending it to my lord. (10) [x] homers (at) the city of Apku including its villages, [...]... as well as [...] the village ......[...]; (13) 15 homers (= 3,000 litres) (at) the city of [...]banu [including its villages; x] homers (at) the city of Ṭabtaia [...... (Break) (r 1) ......] between [......]. When they were few, we collected…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Samnuhu-beli-uṣur. (3) Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the saplings about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have pulled up 1,000 apple-tree saplings from where [there were] 3 or [......]. (9) A royal bo[dyguard ...... (Rest destroyed) (SPACER)
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Samnuha-[beli-uṣur]. (3) Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king, my lord, knows that the Šadikanneans are hirelings; they work for hire all over the king's lands. They are no runaways; the perform the ilku duty and supply king's men from their midst. The king [...... (Break) (r 7) May [the king my lord] not give [such] a command! Otherwise, let the king my lord command that each should go to his government department — the army must not be weakened, not a single man [should be missing] from the campaign, they should all together come t[o the king,…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Samnu[ha-beli-uṣ]ur. (3) Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king's work has become a burden to me. [I released] my [me]n in early winter, but those who were released entered strongholds in order to evade the king's work. [O king my lo]rd, let a royal bodyguard be commissioned to bring them out, and let them do the king's [work]. (14) Samnuhu-bessunu, a citizen of Šadikanni (r 1) [......] holds [...; ...] have passed into the possession of the people of Kannu'.
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... ox]en [...] (2) [... th]ere is/are (3) [...] Šadikannean (4) [...] ... (5) [...] yet (6) [...] ... (7) [...] ... (8) [...] seize you (9) [...] takes (r 1) [...] the Aššur temple (r 2) [...] the land of Halzi (r 3) [...] oxen (r 4) [...] man (r 5) [...] asked (r 6) [...] there (r 7) [...] Whatever (r 8) [the kin]g my lord (r 9) [sa]ys.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-dammiq. Good health to the king! (9) I have imposed on the (people) of Nemed-Ištar 2,350 bundles of apple trees and 450 bundles of medlar trees, in all 2,[800] bundles; on the [...]th of Šebat (XI) I returned ... to Dur-Šarruken. (13) [Na]nî and the (ruler) of Suhu [have come] to me; Ahu-illika and [Zab]ina-Il are with them. They are collecting saplings of almond, quince and plum trees and transporting them to Dur-Šarruken. (r 6) The Suhaean and the local people are also bringing saplings from the country of Laqê — 1,000 bundles of apple trees; their…
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