XXXVIII

The pine, the ...,[1] and the _algum tree_, these trees which under the

former kings my ancestors, they had never planted, I took them from the

countries which I had rendered tributary, and I planted them in the groves

of my own territories, and I _bought_ fruit trees; whatever I did not find

in my own country, I took and placed in the groves[2] of Assyria.

[Footnote 1: Lacuna.]

[Footnote 2: Or "orchards."]

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