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(1) [To the k]ing, [our] lord: your [servants] Balasî and [Nabû]-ahhe-eriba. [Good he]alth to the king, our [lord]! [May] Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! (9) [Concer]ning the planet Mercury [about which] the king, our lord, [wr]ote to us: "I have heard it [can be seen in B]abylon" — [he who] wrote (this) to the king, our [lord], may really have observed it. His eye, however, must have fallen on it. (r 7) We ourselves have kept watch (but) we have not observed it. [On]e day it might be too early, [anoth]er day it might lie flat (in the horizon). [To see it], our [e]yes sho[uld] (liter…
