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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] the king of El[am ...] (3) [...] Now t[hen ...] (4) [... the] 'mu[le]-house man' [...] (5) [to the king], my lord [......] (6) [...] the face of [......] (7) [Merodach]-Baladan who [...] (8) [...] the king, my lord [...] (9) [...] how that which [...] (10) [...] the soul [...] (11) [...] Nabû-ereš [...] (12) [...] a citizen of Borsippa [...] (13) [...] has [...ed o]n him [...] (14) [...] Borsippa [...] (Rest destroyed)
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(1) [To the king, m]y [lord]: your servant [Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, m]y [lord]! The pac[k-animals and the se]rvants of the king are well. (3) The king, my lord, wrote to me: "[Be very atte]ntive!" At the command of the ki[ng, my lord], I have gathered [the servants o]f Bit-Dakkuri and [cla]imed authority over them. (6) Yet Nabû-taklak has al[so cla]imed authority over al[l] the servants [of ...], saying: "They should do as I command, [the house] of my lord should not exercise authority (over them)." (9) All the servants of [...] are city-dwellers; they sta[nd] before us and…
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