Esarhaddon 045

(i 1) [I], Esarhaddon, [knowledgeable], intelligent, expert, cautious, [...] ... who performs the work of [...], foremost one, [who is assiduous towar]ds the shrines [...] ... [...] god(dess) [...] god(dess) [...]

(ii 1) (No translation possible)

(iii 1') ... [...] to [...] and [...] hand of the god(dess) [...] (iii 5′) purification priests, [...] lamentation priests, ... [...] praise of [his] hero[ism ...] singers with ly[re(s) ...] all of my troops [...] (iii 10′) ... [...] in the quay ... [...] for one league [...] pu[re] sheep [...] morning repast [...] (iii 15′) the god Nabû, son of [...] ... [...] the god Nergal [...] ... [...]

(iv 1') [... E]sagi[l ... heaven] and netherworld to [...] I irrigated; I [...] the great [gods] of heaven and netherworld, the people [...] made bow down [to] his [feet], overwhelmed his enemies, ... [...]

(iv 6') [(As for) the resid]ence of (the god) Aššur, Ešarra, the ancestral house, the place of renewal, [which] together with your city, Babylon, (and) your temple, Esagil, they found [...] and its people were exhausted. May [the foundation]s of [E]ḫursaggalkurkura, the place of my renewal, be as solid as a mountain. May [a]ll of the abundance, plenty, (and) produce of the (four) quarters flow [annual]ly into it like a babbling brook.

(iv 13') Written on the pedestal of (the statue of) the god Bēl. [Like] its [origi]nal, written and collated. [Tablet (belonging to)] Marduk-šākin-šumi, the young apprentice (scribe). [Written by] Nabû-zēra-ikṣur, scribe, [son of] Ina-tēšî-ēṭir, scribe (and) descendant of Nabû-nāṣir, scribe.