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~660 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 21
SAA 21 053. The Elamites Have Wronged Me (CT 53 664)
(1) The king's word to the Rašians old and young: I am well; you can be glad. (4) How would I love by loving Elam? I do not confront my friend or my enemy. I do good to everybody, but they have done evil to me. (9) Earlier , in the days of Urtaku, after famine had be[come great] in Elam, they c[ame] to Assyria (rest (6 lines) broken away) (beginning (about 9 lines) broken away) (r 2') [Wh]y does I he, at the command of the gods, plead my case aga[inst Nabû-bel-šumati], my adversary? [The day] when God opens his ears to m[y word]s, let him come and stay with Tammaritu. If not, I shall do as Ašš…
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