Ashurbanipal 115

(1) [I, Ashurbanipal, gre]at [king], stro[ng] king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the f[o]u[r] quarters (of the world); [offspring of Esarhaddon, king of A]ssyria; descendant of Sennacherib, king of Assyria —

(3) [The great gods in their assembly] determined a favorable destiny as my lot [when] I [was a ch]ild (and) granted [...] as a gift to me, [(...)] the one who is assiduous towards their places (of worship).

(5) [...] I completed [Eḫursaggalkur]kurra, the temple of (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, my lord. I clad [its walls with reddish gold] (and) made (them) shine like daylight. I made [(the god) Aššur, (the great lord,)] enter [into Eḫursaggula (“House, Big Mountain”)] (and) made (him) dwell on (his) eternal dais.

(8) [... the sple]ndid (and) exalted one, the lord of everything, [...] everything that was hidden, the emblem of her (Šarrat-Kidmuri’s) lordly majesty. (10) She constantly kept sending me (instructions) [through dream(s and) message(s) from ecstatic]s, [... egirrû-oracl]e(s) concerning the renovation of (the image of) her great divinity.

(12) [I asked the gods Šamaš and Adad and] they [answered] me with a firm “yes.” [I re]furbished [the emblem of her great divinity] (and thus) fulfilled her command. [...] ... [...]