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~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 5
SAA 05 257. Sheep from Dur-Yakin (ABL 0867)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] are being fed. I have wr[itten ab]out these sheep of the scholars, which came forth from Dur-Yakin; they have entrusted them to the commanders-of-ten to whom the Dur-Yakinites are entering, saying: (8) "Appoint two men each from among them to graze them, until your brothers come and give them out." (r 2) Now that the king gave the command, we shall receive them from all of them. (r 4) As to the attendant of the treasurer about whom the king, my lord, said: "He should come" — (r 6) the copper which is being refined by the servants of the magnates, (as well as) th…
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