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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to what I wrote to the Palace: "Let them [...] the rivers, get together and do the crossing at ... the c[am]p," — Arbailai the 'third man' came to me today, reporting: "The river is [floodin]g, I was not able to pass [...] to the [other] side." (14) That is exactly why I wrote to the Palace. Let them now do the crossing at that very place outside the ca[mp]. (r 1) And here — (when) they come [......], half of the [......] ... here; I went by a cart and had a look; it's excellent, and Arbailai showed…
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) I am [right now] sending Šauška-[..., the ...] of Lilî [...] to the king my lord in the hands of Aššur-nadin-ahhe the [royal bodyguard]. (6) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[...] to the horses of [...] on the 20th of Adar (XII)!" — (9) The king my lord knows that the day I arrive in the king my lord's presence, I (must) come back here posthaste! Now, should the team-commanders, be it the prefects or the recruitment officers who are leaving for their levy [come] straight [to me]? Or [will the king (rather) say]: "The [prefects] and re[cruitment officers] sh…
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