and the nether world (Aralli) blessed the splendid wonders,
    the superb streets in the town of Dur-Sarkin.  I reformed
    the institutions which were not agreeable to their ideas. 
    The priests, the nisi ramki, the surmahhi supar disputed
    at their learned discussions about the pre-eminence of
    their divinities, and the efficacy of their sacrifices.

46 I built in the town some palaces covered with the skin of
    the sea-calf,[45] and of sandal wood, ebony, the wood of mastic
    tree, cedar, cypress, wild pistachio nut tree, a palace of
    incomparable splendor, as the seat of my royalty.  I
    placed their dunu upon tablets of gold, silver, alabaster,
    tilpe stones, parut stones, copper, lead, iron, tin, and
    khibisti made of earth.  I wrote thereupon the glory of the gods. 
    Above I built a platform of cedar beams.  I bordered the
    doors of pine and mastic wood with bronze garnitures,
    and I calculated their distance.  I made a spiral staircase
    similar to the one in the great temple of Syria, that is
    called in the Phoenician language, Bethilanni.  Between
    the doors I placed 8 double lions whose weight is 1 ner 6
    soss, 50 talents[46] of first-rate copper, made in honor of
    Mylitta ...[47] and their four kubur in materials from
    Mount Amanus; I placed them on nirgalli.[8] Over them I
    sculptured artistically a crown of beast of the fields, a bird
    in stone of the mountains.  Toward the four celestial regions,
    I turned their front.  The lintels and the uprights
    I made in large gypsum stone that I had taken away with
    my own hand, I placed them above.  I walled them in
    and I drew upon me the admiration of the people of the
    countries.

47 From the beginning to the end, I walked worshipping the
    god Assur, and following the custom of wise men, I built
    palaces, I amassed treasures.

48 In the month of blessing, on the happy day, I invoked,
    in the midst of them, Assur, the father of the gods, the
    greatest sovereign of the gods and the Istarat[49] who inhabit
    Assyria.  I presented vessels of glass, things in
    chased silver, ivory, valuable jewels and immense presents,
    in great quantities, and I rejoiced their heart.  I exhibited
    sculptured idols, double and winged, some ...[50]
    winged, some ...[50] winged, serpents, fishes, and birds,
    from unknown regions and abysses, the ...[50] in high
    mountains, summits of the lands that I have conquered
    with my own hand, for the glory of my royalty.  As a worshipper
    of the gods and the god Assur, I sacrificed in their
    presence, with the sacrifice of white lambs, holy holocausts
    of expiation, in order to withdraw the gifts that had not
    been agreeable to the gods.