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~665 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 13
SAA 13 061. Gold for Making Royal Statues (ABL 0114)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Urdu-Nabû. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel, Zarpanitu, Nabû, Tašmetu, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar of Arbela — these great gods who love your kingship — allow the king, my lord, to live 100 years. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age. (14) The gold which the treasurer, the palace scribe, and I weighed in the month of Tishri (VII) — 3 talents of refined gold and 4 talents of unrefined gold — was deposited in the storeroom of the director of the royal storehouse. He sealed it and did not…
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