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1-2Say to my lord: thus says Aradju, your servant:
3-6My lord, you have given me instructions about every matter, from the waters of the sea and the land of Dilmun, from the salt waters and the borders of the land of the Martu (some mss. have instead: to the salt waters and the borders of the land of the Martu), to (1 ms. has instead: from) the side (?) (1 ms. has instead: borders (?)) of Simurrum and the territory of ...... (1 ms. has instead: the territory of Subir):
7-11Their various
cities and all their environs (1
ms. has instead: their troops), their canals, fields, arable tracts
and their embankments and ditches,
1 line unclear
All the cities are listening to my lord.
1 line unclear
12-14I have
established strong guards for their fortresses, and I have made all their
troops submit.
1 line unclear
15-22I have drained
the arable tracts when they were flooded. I have ...... when their embankments
were leaky (?). I have ...... their fields and reed-beds. ...... bowing their
heads .......
4 lines fragmentary
unknown no. of lines missing
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26.iii.2001-28.iii.2001 : EFH : adapting translation
18.v.2001: JAB : proofreading
03.viii.2001 : GZ : SGML tagging
24.viii.2001 : ER : proofreading SGML
24.viii.2001 : ER : converting to HTML 4.0