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~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1
SAA 01 210. Measuring the Patti-Illil Canal (ABL 0621+)
(1) To the king, [our lord]: Your servants [Nabû-pašir] and Nabû-dur-ma[kie]. Good health to [the king, our lord]! May Sin and N[ikkal] bless the king, our lord! (4) As to the ditch about which the king wrote to us, we made a start on the ditch on the 10th, and on the 8th, as soon as we had got the men organized, we started measuring the Patti-Illil canal. As soon as we have found out its measurements and where it is easy and where difficult (to navigate), we shall write again to the king, my lord. (r 6) Right now Nabû-bel-šumate of Birat is going to appeal to the king about Galṣabri, a town o…
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