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~665 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 13
SAA 13 044. The Runaway Chariot (ABL 0611)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] before the king. (2) I asked [...] the chariot-driver [of DN] who set it up, "Why are you setting up the table of Šamaš?" He told me as follows: "Aššur has gone outside and come back in again. (9) I myself asce[nded] the chariot when it was empty. It kept going [all right], but the ground was narrow and while I paid attention to the chariot's ..., I damaged the rim of the table and the front side of the image. The house truly fell to the ground!" (r 7) [In] the days of the king, my lord, your father, they upset the table [of Šamaš in] the same way. The man [w…
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