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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the wine about which the king, my lord, wrote me: "Set aside 200 homers for the garrison!" — I have set aside as much of it as the king, my lord, wrote. (10) As to Kubaba-satar about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "Speak nicely with him!" — (14) my [mo]uth is closed. [As the ki]ng, my lord, [wr]ote me, [I shall speak nic]ely [with him ......] (Break) (r 3) [He] will st[ay in] my [pre]sence. (r 4) I have now se[nt] (word), and I shall find an interpreter in [...], acquire him for the king, my…
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord]! (4) [The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well]. (6) [As to those] words which the king, my lord, sent [us] through [Nabû-ahu-uṣur], the royal bodygu[ard]: "Send in this way to the son of Inṣabri" — (12) when Nabû-ahu-uṣur arrived, on that very same d[a]y Šamaš-ukin, a trustworthy and chosen [man] of the fort commander, able in words — (r 1) we implanted the very words that the king, my lord, sent us, in the mouth of (this) messenger of the fort commander; he left on the 4th day and went to I…
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