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[...] ... [... Iāmānī, i]ts [king], took fright at my weapons; the main force [of my army ...] property (and) possessions, the treasure of his palace, booty of his, [...]. Fear of the brilliance of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk, [my] lords, [overwhelmed Šapataku]ʾ (Shebitko), king of the land Meluḫḫa [and ...] their [...] I reorganized. People of the lands which are (located) in the mountain region to the east, the land Tišu[...]
[Mar]duk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-Baladan), king of Chaldea, who against the will of the gods [had come down to the territory of the land of Sumer and Akkad and appropriated for himself the kingship of Babylon], turned to Ḫumbanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš I), the Elamite, for aid. [He put his trust] i[n the sea (and its) surging waves and withheld his audience gift].
I mustered the numerous troops of Assyria and [crossed] the Tigris [(and) the Euphrates] River[s, as well as innumerable small streams. Like the Deluge, I overwhelmed the Chaldeans to their (lit.: its) full extent]. In the face of my advance (lit.: “before me”), Marduk-apla-iddina [gathered together] the inhabitants of his cities (lit.: “his inhabited cities”) and the gods [dwelling in them and brought (them) into the city Dūr-Yakīn. He then strengthened its enclosure walls] (10´) (and), moving back a distance of one measuring rope from in front of its [ma]in wall, [he made a moat two hundred cubits wide; he made (the moat) one and a half nindanu deep and reached ground water]. He cut a channel from the Euphrates River, (thereby) making (its water) flow (in)to [its] meadow[land. He flooded its fields, where battles (are fought), and made crossing difficult]. Together with his allies (and) his battle troops, he [pitched his royal tent] in [a bend of the river (lit.: “between rivers”) like a crane and assembled his (military) camp].
At the command of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk I had a causeway constru[cted] (lit.: “trodden [down]”) across his canals [and I caught him, together with his fighting men, like a flying eagle in a net. I spread out like malt (spread for drying)] the corpses of his vanguard and of the Aḫlamû, the p[eople of the steppe who go at his side, and I filled the surroundings of his city (with them)]. (15´) The city Dūr-Yakīn — his treasure house — (and) the cities Iqbi-Bēl, Kapru, [Bīt-Zabidāya, Šāt-iddina, Zarāti, Raqqatu, Ekuššu, Ḫursaggalla], Dūr-Bēl-āliya, Dūr-Enlil, Bīt-Qiblāte, [Nēmed-Sîn, Limītu, (and) Mād-akālša, (a total of) fifteen fortified cities, together with the settlements in their environs, I turned into (ruin) mounds. I carried off as booty at the same time] (both) the people — young (and) old — who lived in the district [and the gods who helped them; I did not allow a (single) person to escape].
(As for) the citizens of (the cities) Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, (and) Borsippa [who through no fault of their own had been held captive in them (the fifteen cities), I put an end to their imprisonment and let them see the light (of day)]. (With regard to) their fields, which long ago, [while the land was in disorder, the Sutians had taken away and appropriated for their own] — (20´) I struck down (those) Sutians, the people of the steppe, with the sword. [I (re)assigned to them (the citizens) their territories, (whose boundaries) had been forgotten (and) fallen into disuse during the troubled period in the land. I (re)-established the freedom (from obligations) o]f (the cities) Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, [Kullaba, Kissik, (and) Nēmed-Laguda]. Moreover, [I returned] their gods that had been carried off as booty to [their] cult centers [and I restored their regular offerings that had been discontinued].
I restored [the land] Bīt-Yakīn and re[organized (its administration). I settled there people of the land of Kummuḫu that I had conquered and I had (them) occupy its (Bīt-Yakīn’s) abandoned regions]. I divided up [t]hat [land] into equal parts and [assigned (them) to the authority of a eunuch of mine, the governor of Babylon, and a(nother) eunuch of mine, the governor of the Gambulu (tribe)].
[Happily, with a joyful heart (and) a radiant face, I entered] Babylon, the cult center of the En[lil of the gods (Marduk); I grasped hold of the hands of the great lord, the god Marduk, and brought (him) safely along the road to the akītu-house. (With regard to) 15]4 talents, 26 mi[nas, (and) 10 shekels of red gold, 1,604 talents (and) 20 minas of pure silver, copper, (and) iron in immeasurable quantities, obsidian], lapis-lazuli, [banded agate, ...]
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