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(Beginning destroyed) (2) ......] the son of [......] 200 m[en ...] of Tarṣ[i-...] a kin[sman of ...] are indeed [...] at the foot of [Mt. ...]; stranglers [......] in Mt. Nipur. (10) Ammili'ti [...] is encamped outside the city of Rablâ, pestilence-stricken. He came to see me and I [asked him]: "Did [...] really come from [......? Let ...] come to me, I shall not place [...] in it." (r 7) What the king [......] a messenger [...... (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! The watch of the des[ert is strict]; the king, my lord, can be [pleased]. (6) The king my lord ordered [me to] give bread to the chariot troops. Now, (when) [PN] came, I told him [...] but he said: "The king has given orders to me and I will take two [month's worth] of each (provision)." I did not agree to give it to him, so he went and opened a silo in one of my villages, brought in his measurers and poured out [x] sound men's worth of (grain). (15) I went and remonstrated him, saying: "Why did you self-…
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