Marduk-zakir-šumi I 2

(o 1') [...] their [...] ... [...]

(o 2') [... Babylon] and Borsippa [...]

(o 3') [... ki]ng of Babylon ... [...]

(o 4') [...] within the heavens the writing board (recording) the exemption of Babylon [...]

(o 5') [... they sp]eak with him; they anoint his head with oil ... [...]

(o 6') [... while] they watched, he desc[ended] to the earth ... [...]

(o 7') [...] the prince commissioned auxiliary troops (to protect) the exemption of Babylon and Borsippa [...]

(o 8') [...] he had (it) inscribed [upon a canopy] of ṣāriru-gold and [set (it) up] in the ‟Gate-of-Well-being,” the cella of the god Bēl [...]

(o 9') [...] in the disorder and trouble [...]

(o 10') [...] Babylon, the freedom and privileged status of Babylon [...]

(o 11') [... he] established. He inscribed (it) upon the gold canopy of the god Bēl and for the fut[ure ...]

(o 12') [...] and in the accession year of Marduk-zākir-šumi, k[ing of Babylon ...]

(o 13') [... ki]ng of the world, prince who reveres their great divinity, [...] the exemption of Babylon [...]

(o 14') [... on account of the rebellion] and unrest in the land of Akkad were [forgotten ...]

(o 15') [... the exemption of Bo]rsippa was not established; to change ... afterwards [...]

(o 16') [the god Nabû ...], the judge who makes opposing sides agree, in the month of Nisan, on the eleventh day, the gate [...]

(o 17') [...] the goddess Zarpanītu entered and for the kingship of Marduk-zākir-šumi, ki[ng ...]

(o 18') [...] thus he asked but no one answered him. In the sixteenth year [...]

(o 19') [...] ... to complete, the omens [...]

(o 20') [...] ... because of the exe[mption ...]

(o 21') [...] ... because of the fre[edom ...]

(o 22') [...] ... [...]

(r 1') [...] ... [...]

(r 2') [...] regular offerings, the oil presser of the regular offerings, [...]

(r 3') [...] the fullers, those who do the work of the temple [...]

(r 4') [...] he released them [from feudal obligations and corvée]-labor of every kind and [...]

(r 5') [... he] released them. The runaway, the fugitive [...]

(r 6') [who ... whe]ther from the land of Aramu or from the city of [...]

(r 7') [... fl]ed, a provincial governor, a [chief administrator (of a temple), a governor, a royal official ...]

(r 8') [... an] official, a provincial governor, a chief administrator (of a temple), a governor, a royal [official], and a [...]

(r 9') [...] the citizen[s ...] is not to enter [...]

(r 10') [...] ... is not to anoint, not to release, to an[other] place [...]

(r 11') [...] he entrusted to the citizens of Borsippa; ... tax of the citizen[s ...]

(r 12') [...] ... [...]

(r 13') [...] ... [...]

(r 14') [...] ... [...]

(r 15') [...] a mayor, a herald [...]

(r 16') [...] he entrusted to him; his property [...]

(r 17') [...] a provincial governor, a chief administrator (of a temple), a governor, a [royal official ...]

(r 18') [...] he imposes [...] for Borsippa. In one kurru, one sūtu of field [...]

(r 19') [...] my lord wrote ... [...]

(r 20') [... he puri]fied. If a provincial governor, a chief administrator (of a temple), a governor, a royal official [...]

(r 21') [...] Borsippa ... unknowingly a sin to him against [...]

(r 22') [...] ... and of my house, my lord ... [...]

(r 23') [... the citi]zens of Borsippa whom Marduk-zākir-šumi, the king of Babylon, at the command of the god Nabû, [his] lord [...]

(r 24') [...] he purified [...] ... of the god Nabû for the god Nabû, his lord, (and) in Borsippa, the city ... [...]

(r 25') [Anyone who ...] removes this [...] and [...] the foundation of the people of Borsippa [...]

(r 26') [...] whether prince, or viceroy, or overseer, or [lieutenant ...]

(r 27') [...] the servants of the god Nabû, my lord, ... [...]

(r 28') [...] ... [...]

(r 29') [...] ... [...]

(r 30') [...] ... [...]