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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 10
SAA 10 351. The Substitute King Enters Akkad (ABL 0629+) [miscellaneous]
(1) To the king, my lo[rd]: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bl[es]s the king, my lord! May the great gods be[st]ow long days, well-being and j[oy] upon the king, my lord! (5) The substitute king, who on the 14th sat on the throne in [Ninev]eh and spent the night of the 15th in the palace o[f the kin]g, and on account of whom the eclipse took place, entered the city of Akkad safely on the night of the 20th and sat upon the throne. (11) I made him recite the omen litanies before Šamaš; he took all the celestial and terrestrial portents on himself,…
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