Tukulti-Ninurta I 25

(r 1) [With the support of the gods …, I approached Kaštiliašu, the king of Karduniaš (Babylonia)], to do [battle. I brought about the defeat of his armies and struck down his warriors]. In the midst of that battle, I captured Kaštiliašu, the king of the Kassites. I brought him bound as a captive into the presence of the god Aššur, my lord. I became the lord of Sumer and Akkad to its full extent. I stood over them with joy and excellence.

(r 9) At that time, the god Aššur, my lord, requested of me a cult center on the bank opposite my city, the desired object of [the gods] (the city Aššur), and he commanded me to build his sanctuary. At the command of the god Aššur, the god who loves me, I built before my city, Aššur, a city for the god Aššur on the opposite bank, beside the Tigris River, in uncultivated plains (and) meadows, where there was neither house nor [dwelling], where no ruin hill(s) or earth had accumulated, and no bricks had been laid. I called it Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta.

(r 17b) I cut straight as a string through rocky terrain, cleared a way through high difficult mountains with stone chisels, cut a wide path for a stream that supports life in the land (and) that provides abundance, (and) transformed the plains of my city into irrigated fields. From the produce of the waters of that canal, I arranged for eternity the ginû-offerings the god Aššur and the great gods, my lords.

(r 25) At that time, in my city, Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, the cult center that I had constructed, I built a holy temple, an awesome sanctuary for the abode of the god Aššur, my lord. I called it Ekurmešarra. Inside it, I completed a great ziggurat as the cult platform of the god Aššur, my lord. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscriptions (therein).

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