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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (8) Concerning the cella of Nusku, about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Look up a favourable day, and also write down and send me how it should be erected" — (r 1) Sivan (III) would have been a good month and the 17th a good day. (However) now the month is completely gone, (so) when can they do it? (r 7) Elul (VI) is a good month: it is (really) the month for it. During it they should make it, and also during it they should erect it.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (7) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Has any curse been written there?" — (12) I have checked and there is none. A curse has (definitely) not been written.
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