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SAA 15 013. Captives (ABL 0164)

SAA 15 014. Itu’eans Working in Dur-Šarrukin (ABL 0711)

SAA 15 015. Exempting the Recruits of the Chief Eunuch (ABL 0709)

SAA 15 016. Entering Deportees into Fortified Places in Arrapha (ABL 0443)

SAA 15 018. Captives in Arrapha (CT 53 217)

SAA 15 019. Bought Slaves and Captives (CT 53 202)

SAA 15 020. Fragment Concerning Mule Express in the Province of Arrapha (CT 53 503)

SAA 15 021. Partitioning Fields in Arrapha (CT 53 887)

SAA 15 022. Fragment Mentioning Arrapha (CT 53 251)

SAA 15 023. Hailstorm (CT 53 902)

SAA 15 024. Dispute over Ownership of Towns and Lands (ABL 0168)

SAA 15 025. Attending to an Expedition of 3,000 Men in Zabban (CT 53 019)

SAA 15 026. Harvesting in Dur-Bel-ila’i and Lubda (ABL 1191)

SAA 15 027. Keeping Watch in Lubda (ABL 0810)

SAA 15 028. Imposing a Peace Treaty near Lubda (CT 53 166)

SAA 15 029. Fragment Referring to Mountains (CT 53 356)

SAA 15 030. The Son of Yakin is in Babylon; I Cannot March to Meturna (ABL 0455)

SAA 15 031. Fragment Referring to the Son of Yakin (CT 53 596)

SAA 15 032. Merodach-Baladan’s Envoys Meet the Elamite King’s Brother-in-Law (ABL 1453+)

SAA 15 033. News of Borsippa, Sippar, Elam and the Son of Yakin (ABL 1003)

SAA 15 034. A Bodyguard Sends the Magnates Off (ABL 0598)

SAA 15 035. Letter to Nabu-iqiša; King’s Magnates in Ellipi (ABL 0169)

SAA 15 036. Letter of Naṣibi to Nabu-iqiša (ABL 0170)

SAA 15 037. Shipping Tribute Oxen and Sheep from Der (CT 53 092)

SAA 15 038. An Attack in the Reed Thicket (CT 53 322)

SAA 15 039. The Scholar in my Service (ABL 0172)

SAA 15 040. Deporting People from Babylonia (ABL 0712)

SAA 15 043. Retaliation for Deserters (CT 53 630)

SAA 15 044. Fragment Mentioning a Hundred Chariots (CT 53 554)

SAA 15 045. Reviewing Implements in Bab-bitqi (ABL 1312)

SAA 15 046. (no title) (CT 53 689)

SAA 15 047. (no title) (CT 53 790)

SAA 15 048. Tabaleans on a Military Campaign (CT 53 039)

SAA 15 049. Giving Out Land (CT 53 287)

SAA 15 050. Cultivating Fields for Kar-Šamaš (CT 53 479)

SAA 15 051. Fragment Mentioning Naṣib-ilu (CT 53 571)

SAA 15 052. Fragment Mentioning Naṣib-ilu (CT 53 806)

SAA 15 053. Horses from Parsua (ABL 0165)

SAA 15 054. Tabalean Captives in Nikkur (ABL 0556)

SAA 15 055. Report on Deportees (CT 53 161)

SAA 15 056. (no title) (CT 53 537)

SAA 15 057. Report on Crops and City Wall (CT 53 422)

SAA 15 058. Submission of Bit-Kapsi (CT 53 310)

SAA 15 059. News from Gizilbunda and Bit-Kapsi (CT 53 460+)

SAA 15 060. Delivering Tribute via Bit-Hamban to Babylon (ABL 0242)

SAA 15 061. Delivering an Audience Gift to the King in Babylon (ABL 0241)

SAA 15 062. Retrieving Runaway Traitors With Lutu (CT 53 055)

SAA 15 063. Collecting Harvest (CT 53 286)

SAA 15 064. (no title) (ADD 1136)

SAA 15 065. Dispatching Horses (ABL 0226)