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(1) [Šamaš, great lord, give me a fi]rm positive answer to what I am asking you! (2) [Should Esarhad]don, king of Assyria, [plan whatever] is written [in] this [pa]pyrus and [placed] before [your great] divinity, and do accordingly? (5) Is it pleasing to your great divinity? Is it ac[ceptable] to your great divinity? Does your great divinity kn[ow it]? (8) [Is it dec]reed and [con]firmed in a favorable case, by the command of your great divinity, Šamaš, [great] lo[rd]? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, [hear it]? (10) [Disregard the (formulation) of] today's case, be it good…
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(1) [Šamaš, great lord], give me a [fir]m positive ans[wer to what I am asking] you! (2) [Will Esarhaddon, king of] Assyria, [accom]plish [the things that] are written [in th]is papy[rus] and placed [before your great divinity]? (Break) (r 1) [Be present in this ram, place (in it) a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I] see (them). (r 2) [......] faces the base of the 'finger.' (r 3) [...... in] front of the left 'mass' there is an additional vertebra. (r 4) [......]. There are 2 'well-beings' placed in…
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