Tell the boss: Šunuma-ilū sends the following message:
May the gods Šamaš and Marduk keep you in good health forever. Stay well, stay healthy! May your protective god allow only good things to happen to you. I am writing to you to learn about your well-being; may your well-being be lasting before the gods Šamaš and Marduk.
I have written you previously asking you to deliver to me ten kor-measures of barley for seed, and ten kor-measures of dry bran as feed for the plow bulls; why have you delivered only five kor-measures of barley and five kor-measures of dry bran so that for lack of seeds my plow bulls were idle for two days? From here the distance to the field is so great that I was unable to send dry bran there. Is it because I am not able to pay now that you have done this to me?
I am sending herewith this request of mine. Give another five kor-measures of barley and the missing five kor-measures of dry bran to my man Sin-bēl-dumqi so that he should not be fined. Write me whether I should return the barley in kind or do whatever else you will ask me to do up to the counter value of the barley.
