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~710 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 17
SAA 17 052. Rehabilitation as a Royal Servant (ABL 0793)
(1) To the king, my lord, your servant Bel-ibni: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and [Marduk] bl[ess] the king, my lord! (5) Initially, when I did not come to the audience of the kin[g, my lord], there were [men] who came from Elam to [see the king], your father, and who, in order to [obtain] intercession for themselves, [libe]lled [me] in the presence of the king. There [was] also a certain opponent of mine who said and wrote [to the king] bad things about me f[rom] Elam. When I heard of this, I did not come, [because I was afraid]. Now (however), I have become desirous of…
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