(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)
(Marduk; Marduk & his giant mixed-breed Babylonian king, etc.)
For the star of the god Marduk, mighty … exalted, [br]ight, the god Šiḫṭu, (unidentified)
lord of catchwater, spring … (and) wide seas, who produces (both) rain and flood,
(Nergal, Lord over deceased earthlings; Nergal, Lord of Netherworld)
the god Imdudu (Nergal), who roams through heaven and netherworld,
lord of the wind blast … and storm, who establishes the inundation,
(Nabu statue, actual size of the giant god)
the god Nabû, the bright one who holds the lead-rope of earth and netherworld,
star of East and West …, at whose appearance the Igīgū gods and the Anunnakū gods hap[pily] …
(Ezida with Borsippa way down below the mud-brick mountain)
who dwells in Ezida, which is inside Borsippa, [(…) his lord]:
Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, viceroy of Babylon […] had (this) … made and a boat … it was brought with difficulty …
procession … for the conveyance of his great lordship, (for his) going and returning […,
the god Šidd]ukišarra (unidentified), who administers all of heaven and netherworld …
for his descent where water, the life of the land, the well-being of the house …[…]
(Marduk upon Mushhushu, Inanna & mixed-breed Babylonian king)
… august, splendid, son of the god Asari (Marduk), who has bro[ad understanding …],
the god Mudugasâ (Ningishzidda), supreme, ruler … lord of ingenious things, martial,
(semi-divine king Gudea, Ningishzidda, & Dumuzi Ningishzidda places the monuments foundation pegs, & Ninsun)
who in counsel […] expert of all the temp[les] …[…] the one who makes opposing forces agree,
who administers everything […], who has broad understanding,
(Nabu the scribe on door of US Congress) (Esagila over Babylon)
scribe of Esagila, who wa[tches ov]er the Igīgū gods and [the Anunnakū gods],
who bears the tablet of the fates of the great gods, who supervises every[thing], capable, wise,
(Nabu’s Ezida looking over Borsippa)
god who[se] rule is pre-eminent, lord of Borsippa, who dwells in Ezida, the great lord [his] l[ord],
Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, viceroy [of Babylon], king of the land of Sumer and Akk[ad]
had (this object) of 18 1/2 cubits made […].
[In order] to ensure his good health, to prolong his days […] may he determine as his fate!
(brother mixed-breeds Ashurbanipal & Samas-suma-ukin)
[…] … […] … […] … Ashurbanipal [… Šama]š-šuma-ukīn, kin[g …]