Assyrian and Babylonian literature

(New York :  D. Appleton and Company,  1901.)

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64        ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN  LITERATURE

" Ashur, who granted long reign to the king, its builder, and
protected his armies "; and Its outer wall " Ninib, who laid
the foundation of the new building for all time to come."

The subjects of the four quarters (of the world, speak¬
ing) strange languages and varied dialects, inhabitants of
mountain and plain, over whom the warrior of the gods,
lord of all, rules, whom I had carried into captivity in the
name of Ashur, my lord, with my powerful staff, I made of
one speech and settled them therein.

I sent to them Assyrians, men of knowledge and In¬
sight, learned men and scribes, to teach them the fear of
God and king. The gods, who dwell in heaven and on
earth and in that city, looked with favour upon my com¬
mand and granted to me for all time (the privilege of the)
building of the city and (of) making it permanent.

Whoever alters the work of my hands, tears down my
images, covers the bas-reliefs which I make, destroys my
insignia: may Ashur, Shamash, Ramman, and the gods
dwelling therein remove his name and seed from the land
and set him bound at the feet of his enemy!
 

THE  MERODACHBALADAN   STONE  IN
BERLIN  (721-710 B. c.)

When Marduk, the great lord, the wisest of the gods,
the king of everything, the autocrat of the Igigi and the
AnunnakI, the most perfect commander, the herald of all
heaven and earth, the adviser of the gods, his creators, the
lord of that which is above and below; the ruler of man¬
kind, whose words can not be made void, whose command
can not be altered, granted (his) favour to Akkad, from
which he had turned away In wrath; he looked about
among all men, he searched the abodes among all the Black-
headed People, to all habitations, every one, he gave faith¬
ful attention—Merodachbaladan, King of Babylon, who
was under the guidance of his hand, the governor of Sumer
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