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I def[eated] all together [..., Ubu]lu, Damunu, [Gambulu, Ḫin]daru, Ruʾuʾa, [Puqudu, Ḫam]rānu, Ḫagarānu, [Nabatu], (and) Liʾtaʾu, insubmissive [Arameans]. I carried off into As[syria] a sub[stantial] booty (consisting of) 208,000 people, young (and) old, male [and female], horses, mules, donkey[s, camels], oxen, (and) sheep and goats.
In the course of [my] camp[aign], I rece[ived] a substantial payment from Nabû-bēl-šumāti, the official in charge of the city Ḫa[raratu]: gold, silver, [large] musukkannu-trees, donkeys, camels, oxen, and [sheep and goats].
I put to the sword the population of the city Ḫirimmu, a dange[rous] enemy, and [I did] not [spare] a single one. I hung their corpses on poles [and] pl[aced] (them) around the city. I reor[ganized] that district (and) imposed for eternity one ox, ten sheep, ten homers of wine, (and) twenty homers of dat[es] as his first-fruits offerings to the gods of Assyria, my lords.
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On my second campaign, (the god) Aššur, my lord, encou[raged me and I marched] to the land of the Kassites and the land of the Ya[subi]gallia[ns], who since time immemorial had not submitted to [the kings, my] ancestors. In the hi[gh] mountains, [difficult terrain, I rode] on horseba[ck and had my personal chariot carried on (men’s) necks. ...]
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I [added (archers and shield bearers)] to [my royal contingent. I divided up the rest of the substantial enemy booty ...] among [my entire camp and my governors],
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who[se] plan [had been designed by the stars (lit. “writing”) of the firmament and whose arrangement] was made manifest [since time immemorial]; a sophist[icated] place (and) [site of secret lore in which] every [kind of skilled craftsmanship], all of [the rituals, (and) the secret(s) of] the lalgar (cosmic subterranean water) [are apprehended];
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I measured (the terrace’s) dimensions. In order to prevent its foundation from being weakened over the passage of time [by] cresting flood(s), I surrounded its base with large limestone slabs (and thereby) reinforced its base.
I inscribed objects bearing my name 160 courses of brick within the terrace and I deposited (them) deep down in its foundation for ever after.
Afterwards, I decided to increase the heigh[t of] the terrace, and (then) I built up [20 co]urses of brick to the former (terrace) and (thus) I raised (it) to a (total) height of [1]80 courses of brick. I made [the a]rea larger than before, added (it) to the former dimensions of the palace, and (thus) enlarged its structure.
I had a palace of breccia, alabaster, elephant ivory, ebony, boxwood, musukkannu-wood, cedar, cypress, juniper, and elammaku-wood, (a palace that I named) E[gal]zagdinutukua (the “Palace Without a Rival”), construc[ted] thereon as my royal residence.
I planted alongside it (the palace) a botanical garden, a replica of Mount Amanus, which has all kinds of aromatic plants (and) fruit trees, trees that are the mainstay of the mountains and Chaldea, collected inside it.
To plant gardens, I subdivided the meadowland upstream of the city into plots of four pānu each for the citizens of Nineveh and I handed (them) over to them.
To make (those) planted areas luxuriant, I cut with iron picks a canal straight through mountain and valley, from the border of the city Kisiru to the plain of Ninev[eh]. I caused an inexhaustible supply of water to flow there for a distance of one and a half leagues from the Ḫusur River (and) made (it) gush through feeder canals into those gardens.
By divine will, vines, all kinds of fruit trees, olive trees, and aromatic trees flourished greatly in (those) gardens. Cypress trees, musukkannu-trees, (and) all kinds of tree[s] grew tall and sent out shoots. I [created a mar]sh [to] moderate the flow of [water] for (those) garde[ns and had a canebr]ake [planted (in it)].
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