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(1) [Šamaš, great lord, give me a firm positive answer] to what I am asking you! (2) [From this day], the 6th day of this month, the month Ad[ar (XII), to the 5th day of the month Sivan (III) of the coming year], [for 90 day]s and nights, my stipulated term — [within this stipulated term], (4) [will (any of) the] eunuchs and the bearded (officials), [the king's] entourage, [or senior members of the royal line, or] junior members of the royal line, or any relative of the king [whosoever], (6) [or the prefect]s, or the recruitment officers and te[am] comma[nders, or the royal bo]dyguard, or…
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) or i[n ......], (2) or in [......], (3) [will they instigate] insurrection and rebellion against [Esarhaddon, king of Assyria], (or) act [with evil intent] against him? [Does your great divinity know it]? (5) Is the instigating of insurrection and rebellion against [Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, decreed and confirmed i]n a favorable case, by the command of [your great] divinity, [Šamaš, great lord]? (7) [Will he who can se]e, see it? [Will he who can hear], hear it? (Rest destroyed)
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