(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)
[true] shep[herd], favorite of the lord of lord[s], pious ruler,
(Marduk & spouse Sarpanit with alien rocket on launchpad)
the one who is loved by the goddess Zarpanītu (Sarpanit) — the queen, goddess of the entire universe —
reverent king who was attentive to their rule and praised their valor,
pious slave, humble, submissive, the one who reveres their great divinity —
You (are the one) who entrusted him with renovating the des[tro]yed shrines,
making the cult centers shine, and shepherding all of the people;
elevated him to the kingship to organize well the forgotten rites and to avenge the land of Akkad;
(and) to appease the heart of your [gre]at divinity (and) to please your spirit, [you] chose him for power.
[At that time], in the reign of [a king who prec]eded me, bad [omens occurred].
[The people of all of the cult cent]ers […] …
… […] the[y abandoned their] ri[tes and] … […] … […] … […] …
[… they were inciting] crimin[al acts (and) infringing on] a tab[oo],
in … […] … […] … [… (and) they] fomented a con[spiracy].
(Marduk’s Esagil, ziggurat residence)
[They] put their hands on [the possessions of] Esag[il] and the citizens of [Babylon
and] plundered [its goods], gold, silver, […] from inside [the temple (and) sold (it) at market value] to the land Elam.
[…] … […] … […] and […] … [the glor]y of [the g]od Marduk, [the great lord], my lord,
(and) [the deeds that I had do]ne […] … […] … [… the wr]iting of my name […]
I depicted and […] … [I pl]aced (them) […].
(Marduk & alien winged sky-discs)
[May the god Marduk, the] great [lord, look with joy upon m]y good [deeds and]