Ashurbanipal 232

(i 1) [I, Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the] four [qua]rters (of the world); [offspring of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer] and Akkad; [descendant of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of As]syria —

(i 4) [The great gods in their assembly determined a favorable destiny] as my lot [(and) they granted me a broad mind (and) allowed] my [mi]nd [to learn all of the scribal arts]. They [glorifie]d [the mention of my name (and) made my lordship greater than (those of all other) kings who sit on (royal) daises].

(ii 1) The word of the god Sîn, which [he had spoken] i[n distant days, he now revealed to the people of a later generation]. H[e allowed] the temple of the god Sîn — which [Shalmaneser (III), son of Ashurnasirpal (II), a king of the past (who had come) before me, had built — to become] old [and he entrusted (its renovation) to me].

(ii 4) [I removed its dilapidated section(s)] by the command of the gods Sîn (and) N[usku. I made its structure larger than the one in the days of the past. I built (and) completed (it)] from [its] foun[dation(s) to its crenellations. Inside it, I built] Em[elamana, the temple of the god Nusku, the exalted vizier, which no king of the past (who had come) before me had built. I roofed them with long] be[ams of cedar].

(iii 1') [(As for) the one who destroys an inscribed object bearing my name, makes (it) disappear by some crafty device, (or) does not place (it)] wit[h an inscribed object bearing his name, may] the great gods [of heaven and netherworld overthrow his kingship (and) make] his name (and) seed [disappear from the land].

(iii 4') In order to exact revenge [...]. At that time, the goddess Uṣur-am[āssa ...] the might of the grea[t] gods [...] the goddess Ištar of Akka[d, ...], the goddess Nanāya, [...], the goddess Anu[nītu, ...]

(iv 1') [...] ... [...] his [s]hrines (and) to plunder his people [... (the goddess Nanāya) who wen]t to live in the land Elam, [...] relented [...] made the return trip.

(iv 6') [...] became a forest and [...] cut down and [...] established his daises [...] and gods, as many as (there were) with [he]r, [... made (them) dwe]ll (on their) eternal dais(es).

(iv 11') [..., who we]nt to live in the land Elam, which [... who]se mountings had become old, tho[se] gods [..., the goddess] Anunītu, [...] their goddesses I carried off to Assyria. (iv 15´) [...] ... between it [...] ...