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(gods in blue mixed-breed demigods in teal)

        […] … […] … […] [… w]ho to his … not … […]           […] … paid attention to the mention of his name, his command […]           […] brings quickly before […] [… unsub]missive to the comma[nd]           […] destroyed [that] one, making the inhabited world shake […] the god, his helper,           [… wi]th his help, they knelt, beseeching his lordship […] did not bear my yoke (lit. “pull my yoke-rope”)           [who took] away [the fields of the citizens of Babylon and Borsippa], appropriating (them) for himself           […] did not fear his command or the mention of his name, and was not afraid of his lordship           […] inundated and leveled like a flood.         […] his own [fear] overwhelmed him and his life ended.           [… he to]ok as booty and brought to Assyria.           (Assyrian King Esarhaddon rebuilds Marduk’s ziggurat residence in Babylon)           [Esarhaddon, gre]at [king], mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria,         [king of the four quarters (of the world)], governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad,         [descendant of the eternal (semi-divine) line of Bēl-bāni, son of Adasi, king of Assyria,              (giant alien god Ashur with King Esarhaddon & spouse;  Esarhaddon rebuilds artifact)         precious scion of Baltil (Aššur) (Ashur), (one of) royal lineage (and) anci[ent] stock —           [At that time … the temple of the goddess G]ula of Borsippa,         the s[ite of] which had become weak due to the strength of the (river’s) destructive flooding,         […] I (re-)erected its dilapidated parts and reinforced [its] structure.               (Bau with her guard dog image on boundary stone)         May [the goddess Gula (Bau, Ninurta’s spouse), …],         look upon this [wo]rk of mine with pleasure [and] (…)