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(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

CHRONICLE OF SEVERAL MILITARY CAMPAIGNS TO CONQUER NAIRI, LEBANON, AMURRU AND THE HITTITE EMPIRE, CHRONICLE OF THE FIRST WAR BETWEEN ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA:

              (royal annals;  mixed-breed giant King Tiglath-pilesar I)

        ‘I WENT TO BABYLONIA.

        FROM THE CITY RIKSU-SHA-ILI

        WHICH IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LOWER ZAB RIVER

        AS FAR AS THE CITY LUBDI I CONQUERED.

        I KNOCKED DOWN THEIR TOWNS

        AND BURNT THEM WITH FIRE,

        THEIR POSSESSIONS AND THEIR PROPERTY

        I CARRIED OFF TO MY CITY ASHUR.

        I WENT TO THE LAND SUHA – VARIOUS TOWNS WHICH ARE

        IN THE MIDST OF THE EUPHRATES I CONQUERED.

        THEIR POSSESSIONS WITHOUT NUMBER I TOOK AWAY.

        I TORE UP THEIR FIELDS. I CUT DOWN THEIR ORCHARDS’

CHRONICLE OF THE SECOND WAR BETWEEN ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA:

         (thousands of ancient artifacts of gods & ancient giant kings discovered in Biblical Nineveh ruins)

        ‘AT THE COMMAND OF NINURTA,

        THE GOD WHO LOVES ME,

        FOR THE SECOND TIME TO BABYLONIA (Marduk‘s domain) I WENT.

        SIPPAR (Utu‘s patron city-state), BABYLON, UPI,

        THE GREAT SETTLEMENTS OF BABYLONIA I CONQUERED

        TOGETHER WITH THEIR FORTRESSES.

        THEIR POSSESSIONS AND THEIR PROPERTY

        WITHOUT NUMBER I TOOK AWAY.

        THE PALACES OF BABYLON,

            (Babylonian mixed-breed King Marduk-nadin-ahhe on stele artifact)

        THE CITY OF MARDUK-NADIN-AHHI (king named after Marduk),

        KING OF BABYLONIA, I KNOCKED DOWN.

        THE MANY OBJECTS OF HIS

        VARIOUS PALACES I CARRIED OFF.

        THE KING OF BABYLONIA,

        IN THE STRENGTH OF HIS SOLDIERS AND HIS CHARIOTS

        HE PUT HIS TRUST,

        AND HE CAME AFTER ME.

        IN THE CITY SITULA WHICH IS NORTH OF THE CITY AKKAD (Adad‘s patron city-state)

        WHICH IS OPPOSITE THE TIGRIS RIVER,

        HE ENGAGED IN BATTLE WITH ME.

        HIS MANY CHARIOTS I DISPERSED,

        THE DEFEAT OF HIS WARRIORS AND HIS FIGHTERS

        IN THE MIDST OF THAT BATTLE I BROUGHT ABOUT.

        HE RETREATED AND RETURNED TO HIS LAND’

DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE REBUILDING OF THE GREAT CITY WALL OF PAKUTE AND ITS PRINCIPAL PALACE

MS in Middle Assyrian on clay, Assyria, 1115-1077 BC, 1 tablet, 19,7×14,5×3,3 cm, single column, 35+35 lines in Assyrian cuneiform script, with 60 ‘fire holes’.

Binding: Barking, Essex, 1995, quarter green morocco gilt folding case, by Aquarius.

Context: Another inscription of Tiglath-pileser is MS 2795.

Commentary: The present tablet represents a major new contribution to the history of the world in its detailed account of two hitherto unknown wars between 2 of the 3 greatest powers of the period, Assyria and Babylonia, texts 2 and 3. The campaigns in text 1 are known from other sources, while the city Pakute in text 4 is attested here for the first time.