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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-uṣall[a]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Three powerful men of the Kummeans have come and had an audience with me and Mar-Issar, the royal bodyguard. Here is what they said to me: (10) "Our people may go where the king said, but your messenger should take us to the Palace. There is a matter [concerning] another country we (wish to) discuss [in] the king's [pres]ence. [...] ...; we [will] not tell it to you, [n]or will we tell it to the royal bodyguard. (r 3) "Else if you do not take us to the Palace, sooner or later we shall say to the king: (…
