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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! (6) [As to] what the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e: "Give 200 homers of oil [i]n Til-Barsip to Kiṣir-Aššur, governor of Dur- Šarruken," — [I set asi]de 200 homers of oil and delivered it. (13) I have now written the oil consumption and the oil remaining on a writing-board and am herewith sending it to the king, my lord.
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord!] (6) [As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me]: "Give [cloaks to the men of] Arbai and Šamaš-ilai!" — (10) just as the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have sent 200 cloaks to the At[...eans] who are in the city of [...], and given 200 cloaks to the men of Epâ who are in Til-Barsip; [all together I have g]iven out 400 cloaks. (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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