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(Beginning destroyed) (1) I have ...[......] (2) Concerning what the king, [my] lo[rd, wrote to me]: "Let the pr[elate and the ...] of Sippar co[me into your presence], and let [them] sp[eak ...]" — he has come once [... but] his brother did not [come] with him. He spoke [with me]: "Let me go [to the Palace ......, and let him go (there)] on [his] o[wn]." (r 6) Now then [I am sending him] to the king, [my] lo[rd, in charge of my messenger]. Let [the king, my lord] speak [with him ...] (Remainder too broken for translation)
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(1) T[o the king], my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Nabû-ereš the brother of Nabû-le'i, accompanied by 15 citizens of Borsippa, came to Sippar into my presence on the 14th of Shebat (XI). [They] have previously [not] visited the Palace [of] Nineveh. (13) [...]s (and) [...] men (Break) (r 1) [Now] t[hen, should] they [c]ome [to the Pa]lace?
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