Aššur-bel-kala 07

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

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

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

(ii 11) In that year, in the month Duʾūzu, the city [...] of the Muš[ku ...]

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

(ii 19b) In that year, in the month Kislīmu, [...] from the River Ḫabur of/and the land Ḫarku (or Ḫir/Ḫur/Kin/Mur-ku) to the city Carchemish of the land Ḫatti he plundered. [He crossed the Euphrates after them in] rafts (made of inflated) goatskins.

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

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

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

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

(iii 8b) In that year, in the month Ayyāru, on campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the city Pauza, which is at the foot of Mount Kašiiari. In that year, in the same month, on campaign against the Arameans, he fought (with them) at the head of the city Nabula.

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

(iii 13b) In that year, in the month Abu, on 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 year, in the same month, he uprooted (the inhabitants of) the city Šū[...]ru of the land Ḫanigalbat. He conquered the city Ḫulzu, which is within Mount Kašiiari, and the city Erešu, which the people of the land Ḫabḫu held. He brought out 3,000 captives.

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

(iii 19b) In that year, in the month [Araḫ]samna, he plundered the Arameans from the land Maḫirānu to the city Šuppu (or Rupu) of the land Ḫarrān.

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

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

(iii 27) [In that year, in the month ..., he ... the Arameans at the city (...)] at [...]ṣiku of Mount Ḫānu.

(iii 28) In that year, in the month Araḫsamna, [he ... the Arameans ...] together with the drinking-places. [In that year, in] the same [month], on 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 the land Arwad he rode (and) killed a nāḫiru in the Great Sea. He killed ... superb wild bulls and cows at the city Araziqu (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 felled ... elephants with his bow. He captured ... live elephants (and) brought (them) to his city Aššur. He killed from his ... chariot (and) on foot with the spear 120 lions with his (iv 10) wildly vigorous assault. He felled ... lions with the 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) ... naiālu-deer (and) (iv 20) aialu-deer in Mounts Ebiḫ, Uraše, Azameru, Ankurna, Pizitta, Udzagiš, Kašiiari, mountains of Assyria; Mount Ḫānu in the district of the land of the Lullumu; and the mountains of the lands Nairi. 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 felled ... wild asses (iv 25) and deer, ... wolves, (and) ... simkurrū. He dispatched merchants (and) they acquired burḫiš, dromedaries, (and) tešēnū. 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 the (iv 30) 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) [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 people] from Babylon of [the land Ak]kad [to the Upper Sea] of the land Amurru [and the sea of the lands Nairi].

(v 1) I rebuilt from top to bottom the storehouses of my lordly palace which are at the head of the ḫamiluḫḫu and the small terrace (and) which had become dilapidated. I rebuilt the house of the šaḫuruof Erība-Adad (I) and the large terrace (v 5) on the north side which Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē, king of Assyria, had built (and which) had become dilapidated. 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) made high doors of fir, (and) made (them) fast with bronze bands. I completely reconstructed the great wall of my city Aššur. I piled up earth around and on top of it. I built the 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 i{burḫiš} in white limestone and stationed (them) at their doors.

(v 20) The canal which Aššur-dan (I), king of Assyria, excavated — the source of this canal had fallen in and for thirty years water had not flowed therein. I again excavated the source of this canal, directed water therein (and) planted gardens. The facing of the great tower of the Tigris Gate, which Adad-nārārī (I) 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) king of Assyria had built, had become dilapidated and fallen in over an area of 63 kumānu. I reconstructed it from top to bottom.

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