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(1) [To the k]ing, my lord: [your servant] Il-yada'. [Good hea]lth to the king, my lord! The land and [the for]ts of the king my lord are well. The king, my lord, [can be glad]. (7) News [of the son] of Yakin: he is [in Baby]lon. (10) [Rad]manu the sheikh of Opis [has writ]ten to me as follows: "[The elders of S]ippar [said to me]: 'The king [should com]e [......]. (r 1) "[...... they] have begun (r 2) "[...] ... [...] (r 3) "I [have ... what] I heard." (r 5) They will see [whatever] it is, [and I shall se]nd a [deta]iled [report] to [the king], my [lor]d.
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] to A[......] (2) [He will th]row himself at the king [my] lord's [fe]et in the re[view]. (4) Now [then] he has gone with Ahu-nuri to [meet] the king, my lord. The king, my lord, should speak kindly with him, and the king, my lord, should give him confidence so he will come and convey the kind words to the people of his country and his brothers. (12) And concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "In addition to Radmanu finding out and sending you the news of Sippar, isn't there any Babylonian you (can) send to find out and tell you their news?" — Radmanu,…
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