The gods Hercules and Nergal gave their valiant servants and their _arrows_ as a glory to support my empire. Under the auspices of Hercules, my guardian deity, four wild bulls, strong and fierce, in the desert, in the country of Mitan, and in the city Arazik, belonging to the country of the Khatte,[1] with my long _arrows_ tipped with iron, and with heavy blows I took their lives. Their skins and their horns I brought to my city of Ashur. [Footnote 1: Hittites.] XXXV Ten large wild buffaloes in the country of Kharran, and the plains of the river Khabur, I slew. Four buffaloes I took alive; their skins and their horns, with the live buffaloes, I brought to my city of Ashur. XXXVI Under the auspices of my guardian deity Hercules, two _soss_ of lions fell before me. In the course of my progress on foot I slew them, and 800 lions in my chariots in my exploratory journeys I laid low. All the beasts of the field and the flying birds of heaven I made the victims of my shafts.[1] [Footnote 1: A very doubtful sentence.] XXXVII From all the enemies of Ashur, the whole of them, I exacted _labor_. I made, and finished the repairs of, the temple of the goddess Astarte, my lady, and of the temple of Martu, and of Bel, and Il, and of the sacred buildings and _shrines_ of the gods belonging to my city of Ashur. I _purified_ their shrines, and set up inside the images of the great gods, my Lords. The royal palaces of all the great fortified cities throughout my dominions, which from the olden time our kings had neglected through long years, had become ruined. I repaired and finished them. The castles of my country, I filled up their _breaches_. I founded many new buildings throughout Assyria, and I opened out irrigation for corn in excess of what my fathers had done. I carried off the droves of the horses, cattle, and asses that I obtained, in the service of my Lord Ashur, from the subjugated countries which I rendered tributary, and the droves of the wild goats and ibexes, the wild sheep and the wild cattle which Ashur and Hercules, my guardian gods, incited me to chase in the depths of the forests, having taken them I drove them off, and I led away their young ones like the tame young goats. These little _wild animals_, the delight of their parents' hearts, in the fulness of my own heart, together with my own victims, I sacrificed to my Lord Ashur. XXXVIII The pine, the ...,[1] and the _algum tree_, these trees which under the former kings my ancestors, they had never planted, I took them from the countries which I had rendered tributary, and I planted them in the groves of my own territories, and I _bought_ fruit trees; whatever I did not find in my own country, I took and placed in the groves[2] of Assyria. [Footnote 1: Lacuna.] [Footnote 2: Or "orchards."] XXXIX