(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)
(Nebuchadnezzar I & temple residences of alien gods, Marduk’s Babylonian king)
Nebuchadnezzar, [pious] prince, [(…) for whom] the god Marduk, hero among the gods,
[decreed] a fate without equ[al], humble, who reveres the great gods [(…)], submissive, prayerful,
[(…)], true shepherd, who provides for the cul[t centres], king of justice, king of Babyl[on (…)]:
(giant alien god Adad wearing boots, another warrior son to Enlil)
for the god Adad, the powerful lord […], almighty, foremost, sovereign [(…)],
my lord at whose mighty battle-cry […], the sound of whose roar on high is pleasant … […],
lord of Enamḫe (“House of Plenty”), who dwells in Ekitušḫegaltila [(…)],
who makes me triumph, my helper [(…)] […] … enemy.
[…] I smote and […] … I established.
[(…)] I cut off […] from the land of Sumer and Akkad.
[…] … […] my heart.
[…] … because in the place of battle, strife, (and) fighting [(…)]
at the clash of arms and the revealing of the standard, the great god going forth [(…)].
Help me! Come to my side! … […]
By his reliable positive answer […] fire […] his weapon … […] … […]
Nebuchadne[zzar …] in the place of fighting […]
On account of this […] Ekitušḫeg[alti]l[a …] … […]… […]