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~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 5
SAA 05 056. Master Builders and Apprentices (CT 53 033)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the master builders concerning whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "Give junior ones to the magnates, so they can perform their work assignment with their help" — (8) (out of) my 16 master builders three are with the palace herald, three are working in the centre [of the city], and ten are engaged in bricking my work allocation of the city wall. (This makes) a total of 16 master builders engaged in work. (13) As for their junior sons, [they are] apprenti[ces], incapable of doing any (serious)…
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