(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)
(01):
Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, I:
(As for) Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon, which had become weak (and) had collapsed before my time,
I firmly set its foundations on (its) original socle.
I built (it) anew using people mustered from my land and I surrounded Babylon on (all) four sides.
I raised its superstructure just like the one in earlier times.
O wall, speak favorable things (about me) to the god Marduk.
(02):
Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, I:
(As for) Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon,
I sought out its original foundation from the bank of the Araḫtu canal on the north side,
(Inanna with private entrance into Babylon)
upstream, at the gate of the goddess Ištar (Inanna), to the south,
downstream, at the gate of the gate of the god Uraš (Marduk / Ninurta?),
and I built (it) in the same way for the god Marduk, my lord.
O wall, speak favorable things (about me) to the god Marduk.
(07):
(Marduk, patron god of Babylon)
For the god Marduk, his lord: Nabopolassar, king of Babylon,
surrounded the wall of Babylon on the outside with an embankment of baked bricks.
O embankment, speak favorable things about him to the god Marduk.
(09):
For the god Marduk, his lord: Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk,
surrounded the wall of Babylon on the outside with an embankment of baked bricks.
O embankment, speak favorable things about him to the god Marduk.
(11 & 12):
Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk,
the one who provides for Esagil and Babylon,
the one who built the embankment of the Araḫtu canal for the god Marduk, his lord.
O embankment, speak favorable things about him to the god Marduk.