(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 …] … […]… […]