Prayer to Gula for Esarhaddon (127)

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(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)

        […] … […] … […] [… 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] (…)