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(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur]. Good health to the king, my lord! [The city of Der and] the fort are well. (4) [Concerning the royal ...]s who live in Der, [about whom the king, my lord, wrote to m]e: "Let two of them come [and ent]er [into my presence]" — now then Nabû-ušabši [and NN] have come [befo]re me. [...... in] Calah the king my lord [gave] this very order [to me]: (9) "[......] royal [...]s [t]o me [...]" (Break) (r 1) [......] some 10 men from among them (r 2) [have come before me, saying]: "To the king (r 3) [......] ... (r 4) [...... g]o [...]." I…
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(Beginning destroyed) (2) they came and besieged [Malak]. At [day]break, they let their released troops go to the [...] and towns, and they plundered all the people and oxen. Those who escaped got scared and entered Der. (9) On the 14th of Kislev (IX) I sent cavalrymen to Malak. They come back and told me: (13) "The herald has entered the house of Zera-iddin, gathered the inhabitants of the country (and) the Malakites, and entered them into a temple. They keep watch over them, and have [...ed the ...] of Zera-iddin [...]." (20) [M]y messenger returned from the c[ity ...] on the 14th, and I…
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