Ashurbanipal 159

(1) [For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē who resides in the House of Succession that is insi]de Nineveh, the great lady, my lady —

(2) [I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of] Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), [... Šarra]t-Kidmuri, Ištar of Arbela, [... t]o be king of the four quarters (of the world):

(5b) [...] an excellent throne [... the se]at of the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady, [...] ... of Bēlet-parṣē [... th]at excellent [throne ...] I decorated it and (10) [... cast with] shiny [zaḫa]lû-metal [...]. I established [the ... of] her great [divinit]y [... may] her heart rejoice [...] her divinity [...] my enemies (15) [...] all of the people, all of the settlements [...] the goddess Bēlet-parṣē [... Whenever th]at [...] becomes old [...].

(18b) (As for) the one who [erases] my inscribed name (or) [the name of my father (or) my grandfather] (and) writes [his (own) name], may [the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, the great lady], make [his name (and)] seed disappear from the land.