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[...] ... [...] ... [...]

[... w]ho to his ... not ... [...]

[...] ... paid attention to the mention of his name, his command [...]

[...] brings quickly before [...]

[... unsub]missive to the comma[nd]

[...] destroyed [that] one, making the inhabited world shake

[...] the god, his helper,

[... wi]th his help, they knelt, beseeching his lordship

[...] did not bear my yoke (lit. “pull my yoke-rope”)

[who took] away [the fields of the citizens of Babylon and Borsippa], appropriating (them) for himself

[...] did not fear his command or the mention of his name, and was not afraid of his lordship

[...] inundated and leveled like a flood.

[...] his own [fear] overwhelmed him and his life ended.

[... he to]ok as booty and brought to Assyria.

[Esarhaddon, gre]at [king], mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, [king of the four quarters (of the world)], governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, [descendant of the eternal line of Bēl-bāni, son of Adasi], king of Assyria, precious scion of Baltil (Aššur), (one of) royal lineage (and) anci[ent] stock —

[At that time ... the temple of the goddess G]ula of Borsippa, the s[ite of] which had become weak due to the strength of the (river’s) destructive flooding, [...] I (re-)erected its dilapidated parts and reinforced [its] structure.

May [the goddess Gula, ...], look upon this [wo]rk of mine with pleasure [and]

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