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(Beginning destroyed) (4) [...... ha]ve become hostile (5) [...... R]apâ-il (6) [......] (7) [......] (8) [...... ha]ve become hostile (Break) (r 1) [...] they brought [bef]ore me with their letter a messenger [who carried the lett]er of the king of Elam. (r 5) [As to what the king, m]y [lord], wrote to me: "Bel-iqb[i ......] the Babylonian should be [in D]er" — I [we]nt and told it to them, [but they said to me]: "He should not come! (r 10) [... will wri]te to him (r 11) [...] "I shall go (r 12) [......] I have been sent (r 13) [...... No]w then (r 14) [......] with me (r 15) [...... Now th]e…
Daily LifeEconomy
(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Concerning the people in charge of the Labdudaean(s) about whom I spoke in the presence of the king, my lord, the king, my lord ordered Balassu, their prefect, to give the (said) people back to their owners. Now then I have writ[ten down] their names and am herewith sending them to the king, [my] lord. (r 1) Also, the men whose people are there have likewise had an audience with me. Let them give their people back to them, so they can be induced to work. (As long as) their attention is (directed)…
Daily LifeEconomy