To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord!

The governor of Dur-Šarruku has already previously opened my seals, taken 10 minas of si[lv]er, 1400 sheep and 15 oxen [belonging to the gods Š]imalu'a and [Humhu]m and [distributed them] to [...] his retinue.

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[......] my seals

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The governor[s] who were before h[im] did not take anything from the tem[ples] — now he has recklessly opened a treasury of the god and the king, my lord, and taken silver from it.

If the Prefect of the land and the governors of Nineveh and Arbela took silver from temples, then he too might take it. It is treasure of the god and the king, my lord; why is it being squandered?

Let the king, my lord, send a trusty bodyguard to investigate (the matter); the man who put the governor up to this should be punished. [Let] (the others) [kn]ow and be frightened off, [or el]se [the govern]ors will dissip[ate] a[ll the treasures o]f the temples. The king, my lord, should know this.