1 the tabernacle, the shrine Lilmuku,
2 the festival of Babylon,
3,4 his pageant of dignity
5 within it, I caused to decorate
6 with beryls and stones.
7 A temple for sacrifices, the lofty citadel
8 of Bel and Merodach, god of gods,
9 a threshold of joy and supremacy
10 among angels and spirits,
11 with the stores of Babylon,
12 with cement and brick,
13 like a mountain I erected.
14 A great temple of Ninharissi[1]
15 in the centre of Babylon
16 to the great goddess the mother who created me,
17 in Babylon I made.
18 To Nebo of lofty intelligence
19 who hath bestowed (on me) the sceptre of justice,
20 to preside over all peoples,
21 a temple of rule over men, and a site for this his temple
22,23 in Babylon, of cement and brick
24 the fashion I fashioned.
25,26 To the Moon-god, the strengthener of my hands
27 a large house of alabaster as his temple
28 in Babylon I made.
29 To the sun, the judge supreme
30 who perfects good in my body,
31 a house for that guide of men, even his house'
32,33 in Babylon, of cement and brick,
34 skilfully did I make.
35 To the god Yav, establisher of fertility
36 in my land, Bit-Numkan as his temple
37 in Babylon I built.
38 To the goddess Gula, the regulator
39 and benefactress of my life,
40 Bit-Samit, and Bit-haris the lofty,
41,42 as fanes in Babylon, in cement and brick
43 strongly did I build.
44 To the divine Lady of Bit Anna,
45 my gracious mistress,
46 Bit-Kiku in front of her house
47 so as to strengthen the wall of Babylon
48 I skilfully constructed.
49,50 To Ninip the breaker of the sword of my foes
51 a temple in Borsippa I made;
52 and to the Lady Gula[2]
53 the beautifier of my person[3]
54 Bit-Gula, Bit-Tila, Bit-Ziba-Tila,
55 her three temples
56 in Borsippa I erected:
57 to the god Yav who confers
58 the fertilizing rain upon my land,
59,60 his house (also) in Borsippa I strongly built:
61 to the Moon-god who upholds
62 the fulness of my prosperity
63 Bit-ti-Anna[4] as his temple,
64 on the mound near Bit-Ziba
65 I beautifully constructed:
66,67 Imgur-Bel and Nimetti-Belkit
68 the great walls of Babylon,
69 ...[5] I built,
70 which Nabopolassar
71 King, King of Babylon, the father who begat me,
72 had commenced but not completed their beauty
_(Continued on Column V_.)
[Footnote 1: Wife of the sun.]
[Footnote 2: In I Mich. iv. 5. Gula is said to be the wife of the southern
sun.]
[Footnote 3: Or, "the favorer of my praises."]
[Footnote 4: The goddess Anna is identical with the Nana whose image was
by her own command restored by Assurbanipal to the temple of Bit-Anna
after an absence in Elam of 1,635 years. See Smith's "Assurb.," pp. 234,
235.]
[Footnote 5: Lacuna.]