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(1) Your servant Kalbi-Ukû: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Good health to the ki[ng], my lord. Say to the king, m[y] lord: I am herewith sending a tablet for the well-being of the king, my lord. (7) Concerning the noblemen of whom the king wrote: "Write (their names) down!" I shall now write them down, however many (or) fe[w] (they be). (Rest destroyed)
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(1) Tablet of Sî[n-duri] to the king, [his] lord. The guard of Eanna and the temple of your gods are well. (5) Nabû-šuma-iškun, the governor, the foster child of the king, is paralysing me because of the garden and the men; he does not let me to do my work in peace. The king could solve the matter with one word, so that there would be silence between us! Now he is going to the audience of the king. Let the king decide what is (to be done). (13) Qištiya, the prelate, is turning me into a laughingstock in the assembly, he is telling me: "Chaff in excess of one litre should go for interest."…
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