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(1) Šamaš, great lord, [give me a firm positive answer] to what I am ask[ing you]! (2) Should Balti-nuriya, son of [NN, go] to the aid of Tu[nê, city lord of Ellipi]? (4) Does your great divinity [know it? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? (5) Disregard that talk of removing, a word of averting [......]. (6) Disregard the (formulation) of the prayer for today's case, be it good, be it faulty, (and that) a cl[ean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep]. (7) Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity for the performance of the extispicy is…
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(1) [Šamaš, great lord], give me a fi[rm positive answer to what I am asking you]! (2) [Should Assurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, str]ive and plan? Should he send [Ša-Nabû-šû, chief eunuch, with men, hors]es, and an army, as great as he wishes, [to the city ... in the district of Ellipi], and should they go? (5) [If he, having planned, sends] him, and he sets up [camp against the city ...], will he also be able to set up [camp wherever he wishes] in the district [of Ellipi]? (7) [Will Ša-Nabû-šû, chief eunuch, with the army a]t his [disposal], escape from Ellipian troops,…
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