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(1) To the king, my lord: your servants [Šamaš]-bunaya (and) Nabû-nammir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû (and) Marduk ble[ss] the king, my lord! (5) We went to Babylon on the 28th. We stood in front of the Marduk gate and spoke with the Babylonian(s). (8) Z[a]sinnu, a servant of Mukin-zeri and some Chaldeans with him came out and stood with the Babylonians before the city-gate. We spoke to the Babylonians as follows: "The k[in]g has s[en]t us to you, saying: '[Let me speak] with the [Babylonians] th[rough] your mouths. I shall establish [the am]ne[sty o]f Babylon and your…