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(1) Your servant Nabû-zera-iddina: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Anu and Ištar bless the king! Say to the king, my lord: (6) [When] they heard from the citizens of Ur that [...] (8) [...] Merodach-Balada[n ...] (9) [they] will perish [...] (Break) (r 2) "W[hy] did you gi[ve ...] back [to] Merodach-Baladan?" The king, my lord, must not believe it! I have not given anything back to anyone. (Erasures)
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(1) [Tablet of ...]eššir [to the king], his lord. [Say t]o the king, my lord: (4) [Concerning the ...] of Nabû-zera-iddina [... about which the ki]ng wrote, (6) [......] I wrote (Break) (r 1) [......] as (r 2) [......] gave ... (r 3) [...] Merodach-Baladan (r 4) [...] ...
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