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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... I said]: "100 (2) [......]ed (3) [......] placed (4) [......] day (5) [...... be]ams (6) [......] his messenger (Break) (10) [...] I [...]. (11) [By the go]ds of the kin[g, my lord], (r 1) [......] 1,000 Itu'eans (r 2) [...... Ṭ]urušpâ (r 3) [will] call [... to account]. (r 4) I have sent [my messenger to ...]; (r 5) [having g]one [...], he [sent] back [...], saying: (r 6) "The king of Urarṭu has written [to] his [governors]: (r 7) "Your [troops] should go and [...]." (r 9) The Urarṭian [......] (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Ever since the king of Urarṭu] came [...], the country has been in a state of alarm. He has taken the governor with him to Ṭuruš[pâ]; he has been discharged. (r 5) The deputy and the village manager have been discharged [as well]. The mighty of the land have been raging among themselves [...], saying: (r 9) "Why, [wh]en you [...], (r 10) [...] the overseer of [......]" (Rest destroyed)
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