Ashurbanipal 075

(1') [During the night, in a crafty maneuver, they (Aḫšēri’s troops) approached to] do [battle, to figh]t with m[y] troops. [My battle troops fo]ug[h]t [with them (and)] brought about their defeat. (Over) an area [(the distance of) three leagues march], they filled the wide steppe with their corpses.

(5') [By the command of the gods Aš]šur, Mullissu, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Bēl (Marduk), Nabû, [Ištar of Ninev]eh, Ištar of Arbela, Ninurta, [Nergal, (and) Nusku, the great gods], my lords, who had encour[aged me], I entered [the land M]annea and ma[rched about triumphantly. In the cours]e of my campaign, [I conquered, destroyed, demolished, (and) burned with fire] the cities A[yusiaš — a fortress (of his)] —