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as an honest man [... into my hands] deliver them up! [...] The god Apla-Adad, the great lord [...] and to the god Marduk, the gr[eat] lord [... of heaven] and earth they will go [...] to the well Makiru [... he ap]proached me and at the well M[akiru ... they de]ployed, but I, Ninurta-kudurrī-[uṣur, (governor of the land of Sūḫu and the land of Mari) (the chosen one) whom] the gods Šamaš and Marduk, Adad and Apla-[Adad ...] ... I [went] to his aid [...] I set behind me and in [...] I went out before them. [I became furious] with the [... and (...)] I became angry. Like a mighty lion I roared a[gainst ... I brought about] a cloud-burst over [them and] from my chariot I blew [them away] (lit. “washed [them away]”) like chaff. Arrows [quivered] like locusts over [my] forces.

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they brought up. The Assyrian took the city Anat neit[her by force nor by battle]; (rather) the men — the citizens of the ci[ty themselves] — gave (it) [to the Assyrian]. Afterwards, the Assyrian [exiled them and] scattered t[hem] over (all) the lands. He turned [the houses] on (both) the landside and the hillside of the city Anat [into heaps of ruins]. Then the Assyrian settled [his own] men [in the city Anat].

From (the time of) T[abnēa, Iqīša-Marduk], and Nasḫir-Adad — three governors (in all) — [for fifty years, the city Anat] was (under the control) of the Assyrian, (and also) for three yea[rs, in the days of Šamaš-rēša-uṣur], the governor of the land of Sūḫu and the land of Mari, [my] fat[her, bef]ore I ascended [the throne] of my father. When the gods Ad[ad and Apla-Adad] set [...], the city Anat [returned (its allegiance) to my father]. After four years, during which the city [Anat prospered], when [my father di]ed (lit. “[went] to his fate”), I ascended [the throne of] my [fat]her. [The regular offerings, offerings (...) and fe]stivals of [the god Adad ...]

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