CYLINDER OF SARGON                            6l

The powerful one, perfect in might and strength, who
subjugated the stubborn Medes; who destroyed the people
of Harhar and enlarged the territory of Assyria; who re¬
united the disorganized Manna, who brought about order
in Ellip, which had been in disorder, who established (his)
dominion over all the lands round about and made his
name famous; who trampled under foot the land of Kirhu,
plundered (?) the mountain-country of the strong enemy;
who drove out IttI, the Allabrian robber, from his city;
who destroyed Karalla, who decorated the skin (?) of
Ashur-leu, their city prefect, like a garment (?) and im¬
posed the yoke of Assyria upon Ada of Shurdu.

The prudent king, full of noble plans, who directed his
attention to the colonizing of ruined sites, to the opening
up of the land and the planting of 9ippat-cane; who turned
his energy to make the high mountains, on which from
time Immemorial nothing green had sprouted, to bear prod¬
uce; who planned to make the broad, waste land, which
under former kings had not been Irrigated, to bring forth
grain and to resound with rejoicing, to reconstruct reser¬
voirs (?), which had fallen In (?), and dams, and to furnish
water In abundance to all parts of the country like a mighty
flood.

The king open to suggestion, with a clear insight
* * * who grew up in wise counsel and matured In di¬
plomacy. To fill the granaries of the broad country of As¬
syria with food in rich abundance and with provisions in
plenty (?), as becomes royalty, to protect the firstlings of
admu (?) against hunger and want and to guard against the
lack of grain and such things as the heart desires, so that—
in spite of the destruction of wine—no needy one be found;
in order that oil, the boon of men, which heals ulcers,
may not be too dear in my land, to make sesame-corn
of the same price with corn, to order my banquets as be¬
comes the table of god and king, bill-boards with set prices
of everything to set upon my boundaries * * *

I planned day and night to rebuild that city, I gave or¬
ders to build therein a shrine for Shamash, the great judge