1 Its fosse he dug
2 and of two high embankments
3 in cement and brick
4 he finished the mass:
5,6 an embankment for pathways he made,
7,8 Buttresses of brick beyond the Euphrates
9,10 he constructed, but did not complete:
11,12 the rest from ...[1]
13 the best of their lands I accumulated:
14 a place for sacrifice, as ornament,
15,16 as far as Aibur-sabu[2] near Babylon
17 opposite the principal gate
18 with brick and _durmina-turda_ stone
19 as a shrine of the great Lord, the god Merodach
20 I built as a house for processions.
21,22 I his eldest son, the chosen of his heart,
23,24 Imgur-Bel and Nimetti-Bel
25,26 the great walls of Babylon, completed:
27 buttresses for the embankment of its fosse,
28 and two long embankments
29 with cement and brick I built, and
30 with the embankment my father had made
31,32 I joined them; and to the city for protection
33,34 I brought near an embankment of enclosure
35 beyond the river, westward.
36 The wall of Babylon
37,38 I carried round Aibur-sabu
39 in the vicinity of Babylon:
40 for a shrine of the great Lord Merodach
41,42 the whole enclosure I filled (with buildings)
43 with brick made of _kamina-turda_ stone
44 and brick of stone cut out of mountains.
45,46 Aibur-sabu from the High gate,
47,48 as far as Istar-Sakipat I made,
49,50 for a shrine for his divinity I made good,
51 and with what my father had made
52,53 I joined, and built it;
54,55,56 and the access to Istar-Sakipat I made,
57,58 which is Imgur-Bel and Nimetti-Bel,
59 the great gates, the whole temple of the gods,
60,61 in completeness near to Babylon
62 I brought down;
63,64 the materials of those great gates
65 I put together and
_(Continued on Column VI_.)
[Footnote 1: Lacuna.]
[Footnote 2: An ornamental piece of water near Babylon.]