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[...] 56 courses of bricks [...]

[...] he extracted [...].

[He wrote t]o him: "Why did you extract [...]?"

[He said: "The re]st of the work that I am doing [is ...; I have receiv]ed from him [x] bricks, but he is still glazing [the kiln-fired bricks]."

I am [herewith] sending [the ...]s of the br[ickwork o]f his wall (assignment) [to the king], my lord.

[Perhaps the ki]ng, my lord, will say: "[To who]m have [you] given bricks [...]?"

[40,000] to (the governor of) Arpad, [40,000 t]o (the governor of) Sama[ria, 40,000 to] (the governor of) Megid[do], in all [1]20,000 (bricks taken) from the king's entourage.

[In all 30,000 f]rom Na'di-ilu.

[All told], I have given out [1]50,000 bricks; [but] I have omitted the bricks of the royal village managers [about which the ki]ng, my lord, wrote me.

[The ki]ng, my lord, knows that the eunuchs and the royal entourage from [whom] I have been taking the bricks which I have given [to] the magnates are going to petition the king. The king, my [lo]rd, may do as he deems best; [the ki]ng, my [lo]rd, knows that [I have] in the past [days given brick]s to the ki[ng's] entourage.

[...] the ki[ng's wo]rk [......]

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