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(1) To the k[ing, my lord]: your [servant NN]. May Nabû and Ma[rduk] bl[ess the king], my lord! (5) [...] in the burial chamber (6) Nabû-duru-uṣur, the [...] (7) who with me [......] (8) contents [......] (9) the king's family [......]. (10) Perhaps [......] (11) they appoint[ed ......] (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed or too fragmentary for translation) (3) On the 12th [......] after [... he went] to Calah. On the 13th he w[ent] to [Calah] with the sons of the king. (8) On the 14th Adad-šumu-uṣur enter[ed] Nineveh and [spoke] with Aššur-naṣir, the chief [eunuch], Sasî and Urad-E[a]: "Let him sit (on the throne) before the eclip[se occurs]." (r 4) The matter [...] spre[ad out] before them [......] (Remainder destroyed or too fragmentary for translation)