Sennacherib 164

(1) [At] that time, the private room ... of the palace of Baltil (Aššur), the seat of the kings, my ancestors, from distant days, of Tiglath-pileser (I), son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), king of Assyria, became dilapidated. Ashurnasirpal (II), king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, renovated its dilapidated section(s). That private room ... (and) its construction was inexpert (and thus) I tore down that cella.

(7) I had a large private room constructed anew to be my lordly seat [(and)] through the craft of well-trained master builders I built (and) completed (it) from its foundations to its battlements. I roofed it with magnificent beams of cedar grown on Mount Amanus. I fastened (metal bands) on facing doors of white cedar [and] I installed (them) in its gate.

(12b) I invited inside it (the god) Aššur, the great lord, (and) the gods and god[desses] living in Baltil (Aššur), (and then) I made splend[id] offerings before them (of) enormous wild bul[ls] (and) fattened sheep.

(15b) By the exalted command of the god [Aš]šur, the great lord, the father of the gods, the one who decrees fates, inside the palace ... may I attain [ol]d age, which without ...., (and) be sated with happi[ness].