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SAA 15 105. Horses and Recruitment Officers of Calah (ABL 0127)
To the king, my lord: your servant Mannu-ki-Ninua. Good health to the king, my lord! Let them appoint a royal bodyguard (qurbūtu) to oversee the scribe and the recruitment officers; let them raise their troops and hand them over. The king, my lord, knows that the horses which were at my disposal are dead. Let the king quickly send me one riding horse each of theirs, to be at my disposal. The tarbiānu (household dependents) who came with me — I have assigned them to the recruitment officers. If the king, my lord, would take charge of them: they are with the recruitment officers in Calah (Kal…
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