[Sennacheri]b, [great king, strong king], king of the world, king of Assyria, [the one who fashioned image(s) of] the deities Aššur, Mullissu, [... and] the (other) great [god]s, the one who makes great (5) [their purification rites], the one who carries out to perfection the forgotten ri[tes of Ešar]ra through divination, at the command of [the gods Šamaš (and)] Adad, the one who renovated Baltil (Aššur), the one who [...] its purification rites, the one who returns the unfinished [protective spirit of E]šarra to [its place, I]:

[T]hen, after I had made the image of (the god) Aššur, the great lord, [my lord, and the image(s) of] the great [god]s, and [installed them] in their peaceful dwellings, in the month [Nisannu (I)], the first month, (the month) of [father Enlil, the month of the he]liacal rising of the Plow-star: (15) The festival of the [fea]st of the king of the gods, (the god) Aššur, which [fr]om distant days, because of [chaos] and disrup[t]ion, (and) the a[kītu]-house of the steppe had been forgotten; the ri[t]es of [the king of the god]s, (the god) Aššur, had been performed in[side the city]. Wi[th] (regard to) that [wo]rk, [I ma]de up [my mind] t[o (re)build] that [a]kītu-[house, and (then) I fo]und out [the will of the gods Šamaš (and) Adad, and they answered] me [with a firm ‘yes’] and [commanded me to (re)bui]ld (it).

[In a favorable month, on a propitious day, through the craft of the purificat]ion priest

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