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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant [Mar-Issar]. Good health to the king, my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk] bless the king, my lord! May [the great gods] bestow [long] days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! (5) The work on the god [...]... has be[gun]; Šarrahitu is completed. The [...] of the king, my lord, and Belet ekalli [are] not [finished]. We [are] work[ing] on Zababa. Uraš, Eragal and Lugal[marada] are in the hands of the masters. All the [......] which is being done in Esag[gil ......] (Break) (r 4) They are transporting asphalt to A[kk]ad from the country of I[tu'u]; and…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! (7) The governor of Dur-Šarruku has already previously opened my seals, taken 10 minas of si[lv]er, 1400 sheep and 15 oxen [belonging to the gods Š]imalu'a and [Humhu]m and [distributed them] to [...] his retinue. (13) [......] I (14) [......] my seals (15) (Break) (17) The governor[s] who were before h[im] did not take anything from the tem[ples] — now he has recklessly opened a…
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