CCT 3 8b (BM 113315)
First word: a-na (ana)
Translation: To Aššur-idī from Aššur-nādā:
First word: a-bi₄ ()
Translation: My dear father and lord, quickly dispatch the 1 mina of silver which Kurub-Ištar brought you plus whatever goods Ilī-ālum sent to you, so that the goods reach me to be available, and let me receive it en route so it will be heard here and the owner of the goods entrusted to me will not demand a guarantor when I am about to leave, and I shall not be put to shame.
First word: šu-ma ()
Translation: If the goods have not left so it will not be heard here, who then will let himself be noted as my guarantor for the silver in its entirety?
First word: um-ma ()
Translation: They will say: "Go to your father!
First word: a-bu-um ()
Translation: Who knows whether the father is good for his name?"
First word: … ()
Translation: Things are fine for you, in fact, silver lies in front of you, while I here repeatedly have to pay silver for textiles on your account and my own, and, yes, I constantly establish a reputation for truthfulness; and in this way I am paying the fees.
First word: šu-ma ()
Translation: If you do not send some of your own, then with respect to the silver entrusted to me plus the (silver) belonging to outsiders that Aššur-taklāku sent to you-- clear the goods and dispatch them so it will be heard here, and so that at my departure the owner of the goods entrusted to me will not hold me back and I shall not perish.