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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 10
SAA 10 352. Burial of the Substitute King (ABL 0437) [miscellaneous]
(1) [To the king], my [lord]: your servant [Mar-Issar]. [Good health] to the king, my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk] bless [the king], my lord! May [the great gods] bestow [long days], well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! (5) [Damqî], the son of the prelate of Akka[d], who had ru[led] Assyria, Babylon(ia) [and] all the countries, [di]ed with his queen on the night o[f the xth day as] a substitute for the king, my lord, [and for the sake of the li]fe of Šamaš-šumu-uki[n]. He went to his fate for their redemption. (13) We prepared the burial chamber. He and his queen were decorated, treated,…
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