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(Beginning destroyed) (1) ...] your [...], [enqui]re and investigate, [and write down] and dispatch to me [the names] of the [sol]diers killed and their [sons and d]aughters. Perhaps there is a man who has subjugated a widow as his slave girl, or has subjugated a son or a daughter to servitude. Enquire and investigate, and bring (him/them) forth. (11) Perhaps there is a son who has gone into conscription in place of his father; this alone do not write down. But be sure to enquire and find out all the widows, write them down, define (their status) and send them to me. (r 6) [Tomorr]ow or the da…
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(1) [To ..., to] ..[..., to] ..[..., to] Reman[ni-...] and to [...]: a royal order of [great urgency]. (7) Get together your prefects plus the h[orses] of your cavalry collection points immediately! Whoever is late will be impaled in the middle of his house, (r 1) and who(ever) changes the [... of] the city will also be impaled in the middle of his house, and his sons and daughters will be slaughtered by his (own) order. (r 8) Don't delay; leave your business and come straight away! (SPACER)
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