(i 1) [Esarhaddon], king of the wor[ld], king of Ass[yria], piou[s] prin[ce], belove[d of] the god Aššu[r] and the goddess Mu[llissu], upon whom (i 10) you placed your protection and whom you safeguarded for kingship, all of [whose] enemies (ii 1) [you killed and] whose [wi]sh [you caused (him) to attain, up]on whose [father’s] throne you placed in greatness, and whom you entrusted with the lordship of the lands; (ii 10) son of Sennacherib, king of the world, [kin]g of Assyria, the one who made the statues of the god Aššur and the great gods; (iii 1) descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, who is assiduous towards the shrines of the god Aššur and the goddess Mullissu —

(iii 8) The former temple of the god Aššur that Shalmaneser (I), son of Adad-nārārī (I), king of Assyria, a ruler who came (iii 15) before me, had built: Five hundred and eighty-six years passed and (then) it became dilapidated.

(iv 5) I did not change the [lo]cation of that temple and I laid its foundations on gold, silver, (iv 10) precious stones, aromatics, (and) ḫašūru-resin, and I secured its brickwork. (v 1) I built (and) completed (it), (and) greatly made (it) an object of wonder for the people.

(v 7) I built (it) for my life, the prolongation of my days, the securing of my reign, the well-being of my seed, the safeguarding of the throne [of] my priestly office, the overthrowing of my enemies, the prospering [of the harvest of] Assyria, (and) the well-being of Assyria.