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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king], my [lord]. (2) The temple[s] of Kili[zi] have been provid[ed with...]s. (5) (In) the month of Iyyar (II), on the 6th day, Adad will set out in procession and take up residence in the Akitu house. (r 1) The king, my lord, [will make] the exorcist and the lamentation priest [g]o, [and they will ta]ke Adad [...] into his temple.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Šamaš-šumu-lešir. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. (6) When the king, my lord, sent me to the Land of the Chief Cupbearer and gave fields to his servants, in that city to which I ascended, in one temple these six deities were dwelling: Marat-Sin of Eridu, Marat-Sin of Nemed-Lagudu, Marat-Eridu, Nergal, Amurru, and Lugalbanda. (16) The people there told me: "These gods came with the king's father from Issete. The king's father said: 'I will send them with Bel to Babylon.'" (23) No one has spoken about this to…
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