Aššur-bel-kala 07

(i 1) [The god Aššur, the great lord], the king of all of the great gods; [the god ...], the king of destinies, the father of the gods, [...]; the god Ea [...], the king of the apsû, [...], the lofty gods, [...]:

(i 12) [Aššur-bēl-kala ..., (the one) who acts] with the support of [the god Aššur, ...] people [...] Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, the king of Akkad, [...]

(ii 1) 1,000 troops of the land [...] he uprooted 4,000 hostages from them and brought (them) down into Assyria [...] to the land [...] and [...] Kislīmu (IX) [...].

(ii 11) In that (same) year, in Duʾūzu (IV), the city [...] of the land Mus[ku ...].

(ii 13) In Simānu (III), (in) the eponymy of Aššur-[..., he brought ...] to the Inner City (Aššur) to (re)build the temple of the gods Anu and Adad. In that (same) year, in the same month, [...] ... [... the land Ḫim]me and the land [...] he plundered.

(ii 19b) In that (same) year, in Kislīmu (IX), [...], he plundered from the Ḫābūr River of/and the land ḪARki to the city Carchemish of the land Ḫatti. [He crossed the Euphrates River after them in] rafts (made of inflated) goatskins.

(iii 1) In that (same) year, in the same month, on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city Šaṣiri, which is in the district of the city [...]

(iii 2b) In that (same) year, in Duʾūzu (IV), on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city [...] of the land [...].

(iii 3b) In Ayyāru (II), (in) the eponymy of Aššur-rêm-nišēšu, he conquered the city Tur[...]ta of the land Muṣri.

(iii 4b) In that (same) year, in Šabāṭu (XI), the chariots and [...] went from the Inner City (Aššur) [and] conquered the cities [...]indišula and [...]sandê, cities that are in the district of the city Dūr-Kurigalzu. They captured Kadašman-Buriaš, the son of Itti-Marduk-balāṭu, the governor of their land.

(iii 8b) In that year, in Ayyāru (II), on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city Paʾuzi, which is at the foot of Mount Kāšiāru. In that (same) year, in the same month, on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the head of the city Nabulu.

(iii 10b) In that (same) year, in Simānu (III), he uprooted the troops of the land Muṣri. In that (same) year, in the same month, on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city [...]tibua, which is on the Tigris River.

(iii 13b) In that (same) year, in Abu (V), on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the cities (under the rule) of Līšur-ṣala-Aššur, which are in the district of the city Šinamu. In that (same) year, in the same month, he uprooted (the inhabitants of) the city Šūru of the land Ḫanigalbat. He conquered the city Ḫulza, which is within Mount Kāšiāru, and the city Eriša, which the people of the land Ḫabḫu held. He brought out 3,000 captives.

(iii 17b) In that (same) year, in Ulūlu (VI), on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city Murarrir of the land Subartu (Šubrû).

(iii 19b) In that (same) year, in [Araḫ]samna (VIII), he plundered the Arameans from the land Meḫrāni to the city Šuppâ of the land Ḫarrān.

(iii 20b) In Kislīmu (XI), (in) the eponymy of Ilī-iddina, on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city Magrisi of the land Yari. In that (same) year, in the same month, on a campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city Dūr-katlimmu. In that (same) year, in the same month, [he plundered the Arame]ans (who were) opposite the city Sangarite, [which is on] the Euphrates River. [In] that (same) [year], in the same month, [on a campaign against the A]rame[ans], he fought (with them) [at ...].

(iii 26) [In] that (same) [year, in ..., on a campaign against the Arameans], he fought (with them) in the land Gulgul.

(iii 27) [In that (same) year, in ..., he ... the Arameans at the city ...]at...ṣika of the land Ḫānu.

(iii 28) In that (same) year, in Araḫsamna (VIII), [he ... the Arameans ...], together with the(ir) drinking places. [In that (same) year, in] the same [month], on a campaign against the Arameans, [he fought (with them) at ...] faces [...] ... [...]

(iv 1) The gods Ninurta and Nergal, who love his priesthood, gave to him the hunt and, in boats of Arwad, he rode (and) killed a nāḫiru in the Great Sea. He killed ... superb wild bulls and cows at the city Araziqi, (iv 5) which is before the land Ḫatti and at the foot of Mount Lebanon. He captured ... live calves of wild bulls (and) formed herds of them. He struck down ... elephants with his bow. He captured ... live elephants (and) brought (them) to his city, Aššur. From his ... chariot (and) on foot with the spear, he killed 120 lions, with his (iv 10) wildly vigorous assault. He felled ... lions with a mace. In the high mountains, they (the gods Ninurta and Nergal) commanded him to do their hunt. At the time of cold, frost, (and) ice, at the time of the ascension of (iv 15) Sirius, when it is red like molten copper, he arranged (and) formed herds of ... gazelles (and) ibex (and) ... nālu-deer (and) (iv 20) ayyalu-deer in Mounts Ebiḫ, Uraše, Azameri, Ankurna, Pizitta, UDzagiš, (and) Kāšiāru, mountains of Assyria; Mount Ḫāna in the district of the land of the Lullumê; and the mountains of the Naʾiri lands. He bred (them) and numbered their offspring like the offspring of sheep. He killed ... panthers, ... tigers (midinū), ... bears, two wild boars of the marshes, (and) ... ostriches. He struck down ... wild asses (iv 25) and deer, ... wolves, (and) ... simkurrus. He dispatched merchants (and) they acquired burḫiš, dromedaries, (and) tešēnus. He formed (herds) of dromedaries, bred (them), (and) displayed herds of them to the people of his land. The king of Egypt sent a large female monkey, a crocodile, (and) a “river-man,” beasts of (iv 30) the Great Sea. He displayed (them) to the people of his land. The remainder of the numerous animals and the winged birds of the sky, wild game which he acquired, their names are not written with these animals, their numbers are not written with these numbers.

(iv 34b) (This) is apart from (other) lands he conquered (and) [the numerous] foreign campaigns [upon which he] pursued [his enemies] by chariot in favorable terrain and on foot in rough terrain and brought about their defeat, (such) are not written (here) [with] these deeds of his. [He conquered] the lands [of all of people] of Babylon of [the land Ak]kad [to the Upper Sea] of the land Amurru [and the Sea of the Naʾiri lands].

(v 1) (As for) the storehouses of the palace of my lordly majesty, which are at the head of the ḫamiluḫḫu and the small terrace (and) which had become dilapidated, I built (it) from its foundations to its crenellations. (As for) the šaḫūru-house of Erība-Adad (I) and the large terrace (v 5) on the north side, which Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē, the king of Assyria, had built (and which) had become dilapidated, I (re)built (it). I dug out the moat of my city, Aššur, which had fallen in and become filled with earth from the Craftsman’s Gate to the Tigris Gate. I removed the worn doors of the Craftsman’s Gate, (v 10) (and then) made magnificent doors of fir, (and) made (them) fast with bronze bands. I built the great wall of my city, Aššur, in its entirety (and) piled up earth around (it) and on top of it. I built a palace of cedar, (v 15) boxwood, terebinth, (and) tamarisk in my city, Aššur. I made (replicas of) two nāḫiru, four burḫiš, (and) four lions in basalt, two genii in parūtu-alabaster, (and) two burḫiš in white limestone and stationed (them) at their gates.

(v 20) (As for) the canal that Aššur-dān (I), the king of Assyria, had dug, the source of that canal had fallen in and for thirty years water had not flowed therein. I again dug the source of that canal, directed water therein (and) planted gardens. The facing of the great tower of the Tigris Gate, which Adad-nārārī (I), the king of Assyria, had built, had become dilapidated and fallen in. I raised (it) five “feet” above water level with bitumen and baked brick. The large terrace of New Palace, which is before the forecourts, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), the king of Assyria, had built, had become dilapidated and fallen in over an area of sixty-three kumānu. I built (it) from its foundations to its crenellations.

(v 32) I constructed a palace in the city Sikkatu, which is at the head of the road to the Inner City (Aššur). I built a new palace in [the city S]āqa. The palace of the city Apku, which [A]ššur-rēša-iši (I), [my ancestor], had built, (but) not [completed], (its) wall [...] ... [...]