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This volume contains A. Cowley’s careful study of facsimiles, texts, papyri, and other materials. Collected in one volume and arranged chronologically, Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. contains all legible pre-Christian Aramaic papyri known at the time of publication. It includes letters, legal documents, lists of names, accounts, and literary pieces. Some are complete; others are...

courtiers, I thought, ‘He will seek my good in return for that which I have done for him’. Then 25the son of my sister whom I had brought up, imagined against me evil and said in his heart, 26‘Surely such words as these can I say, “This Aḥiḳar, the old man, who was seal-bearer 27to Senacherib the king your father has corrupted the land against you, for he is a counsellor and a skilful 28scribe and by his counsel and words all Assyria was (guided).” Then Esarhaddon 29will be greatly troubled when
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