Ashurbanipal 213

(1') [who provides str]ewn offerings, who quick[ly dispatches] the meal-offer[ing(s) for the great gods];

(2') supreme [hei]r of Ekur, who renders decision(s) for cities l[ike the divine light (Sîn)] (and) proclai[ms truth], who carries out the cultic rite(s) of the office of supreme power, who ke[eps secret(s)], (5´) without whom no [deliberation] is hel[d] in Ekur, who watches over the command of everything, who constantly brings [instructions] before the god Sîn, the d[ivine light];

(8') righteous judge, who sees the mind of [the people], who purifies the just and [the wicked] like the Divine River, (10´) [who keeps] truth and justice [pur]e, whom the king of the gods, the god Na[mraṣīt (Sîn), commissi]oned to destroy the m[alicious, the exalte]d [vizier], who proclaims good thi[ngs], [whose decision cannot be alte]red (and) [whose] co[mmand] cannot be changed;

(14') [... the wicked, w]ho destroys enemi[es, the one to whom injustice] (and) deceit[ful] acts [are an abomination, who strikes foes with lightning, who goes out and walks along the street(s) of his city to give] judgement and de[cision],

(r 1') [may he wri]te [the mention of my good name, which the gods Aššur and Marduk had made greater than (those of) all (other) rulers, w]it[h his (own) name] and [deposit (them) for the future]. May the god Nusku and the goddess Sadarnunna lo[ok] upon his handiwork with pleasure [and grant his prayers].

(r 3') (As for) the one who [erases] my name from upon [these] lion-headed eagle[s], or [removes] this work from Emel[amana and (rev. 5´) (re)fashions (its metal)] for anything else, or destroys the praise of the god Nusku, my lord, and [changes the mention of my name, may] the god Nusku, the just vizier, [beloved of the god Sîn], constantly [speak inauspicious words about him] before the god Sîn, the one who had begotten him.

(r 9') This is what is (written) upon the lion-headed eagle[s ...] that sta[nd] in front of the cella [...].

(r 11') Upon the lion-headed eagles. That which is (written) up[on ...]. The praise and ... [... That wh]ich is (written) in the lines (of text) on the lion-he[aded eagles ...] ... [...]