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(1) [Your servant NN]: I would gladly di[e for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord]: (2) [......] "The king of Ela[m] (3) [has writt]en [to ...], saying: 'The crimes [...] (4) [... has t]old you; on the road [...] (5) [......] has exceeded Der [...] (6) [......] Do we know the Aramean(s)? [...] (7) [......] my [...] wrote you [...] (8) [......] the Gambu[lu ...] (9) [......] I will give for you [...] (10) [......] there is no [...] (11) [...... s]ent [...] (Rest destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (3) [...] ... [to/with/against] us (4) [... agai]nst the Assyrian(s) (5) [...] he hears. Concerning [...] (6) [... the ...]s of Marduk-šarru-uṣur [...] (7) [...] he sent (word) and took away [...] (8) [...] ... the land Irreja (9) [... who] were brought to me, whose names I wrote down and (whom) I sent to [the vizier], my lord, (r 1) [...] they are [...], and he is held before him. (r 2) [(I swear) by the gods] of the vizier, my lord, that before [...] brought peace to me, for three years [...] I was mute and [did not write] to the king, my lord. [Now] I have [written]…
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