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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......]... (3) [......] b[o]rder (4) [......] of [...] (Break) (r 3) [......] the king's [w]ork (r 4) [......] let him live there (r 5) [......] and the people of the country (r 6) [......] the work voluntarily (Rest destroyed)
Daily LifeEconomy
(1) [To the governor, my lord]: your [serva]nt [Nabû-duru-uṣur. Good health to my lord]! The ci[ty of Der and the for]t are we[ll]. (3) News o[f the king] of E[lam]: m[y messenger] whom I s[ent] to El[am] we[nt to the town Bur]ati. [On the xth day] h[e retur]ned (with this report): (6) "The king of E[la]m has set o[ut]. He has sen[t his messenger t]o Parsumaš, saying: 'Will [...]yâ mobilize? [...] against [...].' Umman-minâ the herald [... and Bu]r-Silâ [are rai]sing pro[visions for the expedition] in Bit-Bunakka. [They have written] to the son of Dal[tâ]: 'The king of Elam is coming, he is…