Ashurbanipal 243

(1) Ashurbanipal, [great] king, [mighty king, king of the world], king of Assyria, king of the [four] quarters (of the world), [king of kings], ruler who has no rival, who rules from [the Upper Sea to the] Lower [Sea] and [who made] all [rulers bow down at his feet]; (5) son of Esarhaddon, [great] king, [(mighty king), (king of the world), (king of Assyria), (governor of Babylon)], king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; [grand]son of [Sennacherib, (great king), mighty king], king of the world, king of Assyria, I —

(7b) [I completed the work on Esagil] which (my) father who had engendered me had not [finished. I (re)confirmed] the regular offerings for Esagil [and the gods of Babylon. I (re-)established] the privileged status of B[abylon (and) appointed Šamas-šuma-ukīn, my favorite brother, to the kingship of Babylon in order that the strong might not harm] the weak.

(1') [(But) as for the one who ... destroys my] inscri[bed object, or changes its position], may the god Ea, king of the Wat[ery Abyss (apsû), speak evil of him before the god Bēl (Marduk) (and) the goddess Bēltīya (Zarpanītu) and make] his name (and) his descendant(s) [disappear] from [the lands]!