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[... I] adorned them (statues of the gods) and they (the gods) went (back) to their land. I rebuilt th[ose] cities. I built a city on top of a tell (lit. “a heaped-up ruin mound”) called [Ḫumut]. I b[uilt (and) co]mpleted (it) from its foundations to its parapets. [Inside (it), I founded] a palace for my royal residence. I named it Kār-Aššur, set up the weapon of (the god) Aššur, my lord, therein, (and) settled the people [of (foreign) lands] conquered by me therein. [I] imposed upon them [tax (and) tribute], (and) considered them as inhabitants of Assyria.

I dug out the Patti-[Enlil] canal, [which] had lain abandoned for a very long time and [...], and I made an abundance of water gurgle through it.

I exercised authority over [... from] the cities Dūr-(Kuri)galzu, Sippar of the god Šamaš, [..., the (tribes) Na]sikku, Naqru, (and) Tanê, the city Kalaʾin, the Šumandar canal, [the city Pa]ṣitu of the (tribe) Dunanu, the land Qirbutu, [... the (tribe) Adi]lê, the land Būdu, the city Paḫḫaz, the land Qin-Nippur, (and) the cities [of Kar]duniaš (Babylonia) as far as the Uqnû River, [which are on the shore of the Lo]wer [Sea]. I anne[xed] (those areas) to Assyria (and) placed a eunuch of mine as [provincial governor over them].

From their sheep levy, [which] I take [annually], I apportion[ed] 240 sheep as a gift to (the god) Aššur, my lord. [From] those [Ara]means whom I deported, (10) [I distribut]ed (and) settled [... thousand to the province of] the turtānu, 10,000 (to) the province of the palace herald, [...] thousand (to) the province of the chief cupbearer, [... thousand (to) the province of the land] Barḫa(l)zi, (and) 5,000 (to) the province of the land Mazamua.

I united them, [considered them] as inhabitants of [Assyria, (and) imposed] the yoke of (the god) Aššur, my lord, [upon them] as Assyrians. (As for) the abandoned settlements on the periphery of my [land] that had bec[ome] desolated [during the reign(s) of (previous) kings], my [ancestor]s,

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