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(Beginning destroyed) (1) "Cons[ult] the tablet!" The br[ick masons who] star[ted] to work were gossiping the following day, saying: "This work is most acceptable to Bel! The king is going to live long!" (6) They were merry indeed, so I asked: "What is it? Tell me!" but they wouldn't tell me. (9) (I need) six musukkannu trees, each six cubits (3 m) long and one cubit (50 cm) in circumference; (10) one haluppu fir tree, five cubits long, one cubit in circumference; (12) ten musukkannu trees, each of which are two qû measures thick; they may be either five or six cubits long; (14) one good box…
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king], my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk] bless the king, my lord! (Break) (8) [......] are distributing [...] to the magnates (10) [If it is acceptable to] the king, my lord, [the ...] should give orders [to ......] (13) [......] they should come (14) [I will] give them [...]. (15) [The ... which they have c]ut into shape (16) [are] very [...]; (17) their [...] are [...]. (18) I have listed their [...] and sent (this information) to the king, my lord. (20) The second-rate (logs) we [have been cut]ting into shape here are quite…
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