(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…)
(Nabu, Marduk’s son, patron god over Borsippa)
For the supreme vizier, dragon without equal, … sublime …
Offspring of the god Dumu-duku (Marduk), perfect heir, honoured son,
(Marduk, spouse Sarpanit, & son Nabu)
offspring of the goddess Erua (Sarpanit),
The one who has gathered to himself (all) rites and ordinances,
who makes secure the throne, the sceptre of the people,
(areal view of Nabu’s patron city Borsippa; Ezida, ziggurat residence of Nabu in Borsippa, a mini Babylon)
Who esta[blishes] a reign, who decrees kingship, the lord of Borsippa who dwells in Ezida,
His helper, his august protector, who makes him triumph, his lord:
(Marduk’s ziggurat residence separated from his city of Babylon)
Adad-apla-iddina, king of Babylon, prince who reveres him,
To (obtain) what he strives for, … his desire, to experience the fullness of old age,
… his aid … to intercede …
A belt of red gold which is duly adorned with valuable stone(s)
And (decorated with depictions of) rampant bulls standing upon it facing the four directions
He had made and presented (to the god) to be an ornament for his braided belt.
Eleven are its lines.
That which is (written) upon the belt of the lord of Borsippa.
Written (and) collated according to its original.
Written according to the wording of damaged tablets.
Anyone who sees (this) should not damage (it)!
(Instead), let him restore the break(s)!
Tablet of Urad-Gula, the exorcist, [so]n of Adad-šuma-uṣur,
(Marduk’s temple residence, & King Esarhaddon giving praise)
chief exorcist of Es[ar]haddon, king of Assyria.