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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-upahhir. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) The king my lord's servants, the city-rulers under my authority whom the king [my lord] o[rdered] to work in Milqia [have co]me [to my presence saying: "...... (Break) (r 1) "Send [..... to the pa]lace!" (r 2) They have made [me] sack [the ... of the ki]ng, my lord; what does the king my lord say?
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(1) To the king, our lord: your servants the city-rulers who are doing the king's work in Milqia. (6) As to what the king wrote to us: "Finish your work it while it is supervised" — we will do what the king our lord wrote to us and deliver it to the king our lord, but the work is a great burden on us. (r 1) What with the kallapus and the trackers, they do not allow us to do the king's work. (r 6) We are now petitioning the king our lord to release us so that we can perform the king's work. We shall repay our debt as soon as we are back in our country.
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