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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... which he wro]te [in th]is [papyrus and placed before your great divinity]? (2) Is it decr[eed and confirmed in] a favorable case, by the com[mand of your great divinity, Šamaš], great lord? [Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? (4) [Disregard the (formulation) of the prayer for] today's case, [be it good, be it faulty]. (5) [Disregard that a clean or an] unclean person [has touched] the sacrificial sheep, [or blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep]. (Rest destroyed)
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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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