96 In my seventeenth year the Euphrates I crossed.  To the
     land of Amanus I ascended.  Logs
97 of cedar I cut.  In my eighteenth year for the sixteenth
     time the Euphrates I crossed.  Hazael
98 of Damascus to battle came. 1,221 of his chariots, 470 of
     his war-carriages with
99 his camp I took from him.  In my nineteenth campaign for
     the eighteenth[1] time the Euphrates I crossed.  To the land
     of Amanus
100 I ascended.  Logs of cedar I cut.  In my 20th year for
     the 20th time the Euphrates
101 I crossed.  To the land of Kahue I went down.  Their
     cities I captured.  Their spoil
102 I carried off.  In my 21st campaign, for the 21st time the
     Euphrates I crossed.  To the cities
103 of Hazael of Damascus I went.  Four of his fortresses
     I took.  The tribute of the Tyrians,
104 the Zidonians (and) the Gebalites I received.  In my 22d
     campaign for the 22d time the Euphrates
105 I crossed.  To the country of Tabalu[2] I went down.  In
     those days (as regards) the 24
106 Kings of the country of Tabalu their wealth I received. 
     To conquer
107 the mines of silver, of salt and of stone for sculpture I
     went.  In my 23d year
108 the Euphrates I crossed.  The city of Uetas, his strong
     city,
109 (which belonged) to Lalla of the land of the Milidians
     I captured.  The Kings of the country of Tabalu
110 had set out.  Their tribute I received.  In my 24th year,
     the lower Zab
111 I crossed.  The land of Khalimmur I passed through.  To
     the land of Zimru
112 I went down.  Yan’su King of the Zimri from the face
113 of my mighty weapons fled and to save his life
114 ascended (the mountains).  The cities of ’Sikhisatakh,
     Bit-Tamul, Bit-Sacci
115 (and) Bit-Sedi, his strong cities, I captured.  His fighting
     men I slew.
116 His spoil I carried away.  The cities I threw down, dug
     up, (and) with fire burned.
117 The rest of them to the mountains ascended.  The peaks
     of the mountains
118 I attacked, I captured.  Their fighting men I slew.  Their
     spoil (and) their goods
119 I caused to be brought down.  From the country of Zimru
     I departed.  The tribute of 27 Kings
120 of the country of Par’sua[3] I received.  From the country
     of Par’sua I departed.  To
121 the strongholds of the country of the Amadai,[4] (and)
     the countries of Arazias (and) Kharkhar I went down.
122 The cities of Cua-cinda, Khazzanabi, Ermul,
123 (and) Cin-ablila with the cities which were dependent
     on them I captured.  Their fighting men

[Footnote 1:  The King counts his passage of the river on his return from Syria the seventeenth time of his crossing the Euphrates.]

[Footnote 2:  The Tubal of the Old Testament, and Tibareni of classical geographers.]