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(1) [Šamaš, great lord, give me a fi]rm positive answer [to what I am ask]ing you! (2) Should [Esarhaddon, ki]ng of Assyria, strive and plan? (3) [Should he send men, horse]s and troops, as he wishes, [to the dis]trict and the cities written [in] this [pap]yrus, and placed [before] your great [divinity]? Should they go? (8) Is it pleasing [to your gre]at [divinity]? (9) [Is it dec]reed and confirmed [in a favorable case, by the command] of your great divinity, [Šamaš, great lord]? (11) [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case], be it good, be it faulty, (and that) the day is overcast.…
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(1) Šamaš, great lord, [give me a firm positive answer] to what I am asking you! (2) Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who is n[ow intent on sending the person] whose name is written [in this papyrus and placed] before [your great] divinity, [against the cities of ...], and [(whom) your great divinity knows] — (5) in accordance with the command of your gre[at] divinity, [Šamaš, great lord, and your favorable decisions], should the subject of this query, [Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, strive and plan, and send ...] against the cities of [...? Is it pleasing to your great divinity]? (8) If he, having…
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