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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] distribut[e(s) ...] (2) [...] corn tax [...] (3) [... the s]cholars whom the king, [my] lo[rd] (4) [......] gives (5) [...... go]es (6) [......] (7) [......] (8) Aššur-iddina, their prefect, holds [1]00 (hectares) of land and three orchards (Remainder too broken for translation)
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [about whom the ki]ng, [my] l[ord, wrote t]o me, [NN the bod]yguard has brought out [the ...]s fr[om GN. When] Kur'e-uballiṭ [ca]me to me, [I ga]ve them [x ...], 32 farmers and [x hundred] 20 homers of seed corn. (10) [x hundred] 20 homers of seed corn (11) [in ad]dition the people of the house [of ...] (12) [have] culti[vated ...] (r 1) [th]at is in [...]. (r 2) [All told] I have given out 1,100 homers of seed corn. (r 4) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "Why (then) have you cultivated so few [arable field]s?" (r 7) [...] it is the barley ration [which re]ached […