Sennacherib 025

(i' 1') [...] ... [(...) (As for) the rest of his magnates, including Nabû]-šuma-iškun, [a son of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan), who had raised their arms because they were terrified of] doing battle with me, I [captured them ali]ve [in the thick of battle].

(i' 6') [I b]rought back [all together the chariots along with their horses, whose drivers had been killed i]n the thick of (that) [mighty battle and which had themselves been released so that they galloped about on] their [ow]n. [When the second double-hour of the night had passed], I stopped [their slaughter].

(i' 11') [(As for) him, Umman-menanu (Ḫumban-menanu), the king of the land El]am, [along with the king of Babylon (and) the sheikhs of Chal]dea

(ii' 1') I [fastened bands of bright copper on doors of white cedar and I installed (them) in their gates]. I [had] magnificent [bull colossi fashioned] from [white limestone that was discovered in the territory of] the city Balā[ṭāya and on the right and left] I made (them) h[old their door bolt(s)].

(ii' 6') [I greatly enlarged its outer courtyard] for the proper administration of [the black-headed (people), the inspection of thoroughbred horses], mules, a[gālu-donkeys, military equipment, chariots], carts, [wagons, quivers], bows, and [uṣṣu-arrows, every type of] (ii´ 10´) implement of war, (and) the submission of te[ams of horses] (and) mules, which [have great] stren[gth], to the yoke.