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a-na LUGAL EN-ni ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ka 1ba-la-si-i 1dPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ni dPA dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL lik-ru-bu LUGAL EN-ni re-ma-nu šu-u₂ 01-en UD-mu e-ṣe-e ša LUGAL ik-ku-šu u₂-kar-ru-ni ku-sa-pu la e-kul-u-ni a-di im—ma-te ša₂-al-šu₂ ina UD-me an-ni-i-e LUGAL NINDA-MEŠ la ek-kal LUGAL muš-ke-e-nu ki-ma SAG.DU ITI d30 it-ta-mar ma-a ra-me-ni la u₂-šar-ra ma-a SAG.DU ITI šu-u₂ NINDA-MEŠ la-a-kul GEŠTIN-MEŠ la-as-si u₂-ma-a MULSAG.ME.GAR d30 šu-u ša₂ MU.AN.NA gab-bi a-na hur LUGAL NINDA-MEŠ le-re-eš ŠA₃-bi-ni ni-id-du-bu-ub ni-ip-ta-lah₃ ina UGU a-na LUGAL ni-is-sap-ra

To the king, our lord: your servants Balasî and Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord!

The king, our lord, will pardon us. Is one day not enough for the king to mope and to eat nothing? For how long (still)? This is already the third day (when) the king does not eat anything. The king, a beggar!

(Surely) when, in the beginning of the month, the moon appears, he says: "I will not fast (any more)! It is the beginning of the month! I want bread to eat and wine to drink!"

Now Jupiter is the moon. The king can ask for food for even the whole of the year! We became worried and were afraid, and that is why we are (now) writing to the king.