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(1) [Šamaš, great lord, give me a f]irm positive answ[er to what I am asking you]! (2) [From the ...th day of this month], Shebat (XI) of [this year, to the ...th day of Nisan (I) of the] coming [year], 40 days [and nights, my stipulated term] — (4) [within this stipulated term], should [Esarhaddon, k]ing of Assyria, s[trive and plan, and send NN with an army, as he wishes, ag]ainst Kaštari[tu, city lord of Karkaššî]? (6) [If he sends him and he goes, is it pleasing] to [your great] divinity? (Break) (r 1) May (this query) go [to your great divinity, O Šamaš, gre]at [lord, and may an oracle be…
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(1) [Šamaš], great lord, [give me a firm positive answer to] what [I am asking you]! (2) [Should] Esarhaddon, king of A[ssyria, strive and plan]? Should he send [magnates and governors], together with men, horses, [and an army, as great as they wish], against Kaštaritu [of Karkašš]î and the t[roops (allied) with him], to wage war at the c[ity K]asasu? I[f he, having planned, sends them], (6) will the magnates and governors, (with) the army of [Esa]rhaddon, king of Assyria, conquer [that city] and will they, as long as they are in the district of K[arkaššî], march about [wherever] they wish?…
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