“... and they pressed on to the supreme gate. He threw down, removed, and cast down the door of Ištar in the holy places, He descended also, like Ura the unsparing, to Dû-maḫa; He stayed also in Dû-maḫa, looking at the temple; He opened his mouth, and spake with the children (of the place). To all his warriors (then) he hastened the message:— ‘Carry off the spoil of the temple, take also its goods, Destroy its barrier, cause its enclosures to be cut through.’ To the channel ... they pressed on....” (Here comes a mutilated passage apparently referring to the destruction which he wrought.) “He drove away the director’s overseer, he took away the vail. The enemy pressed on evilly to Ennun-dagalla. The god was clothed with light before him, He flashed like lightning, and shook the (holy) places. The enemy feared, he hid himself. There descended (?) also its chief man, and he spake to him a command. ... the god was clothed with light, (He flashed like lightning), and shook the (holy) places. ‘(Draw near unto?) Ennun-dagalla, remove his crowns! (Enter into?) his temple, seize his hand!’ ..., he did not fear, and he regarded not his life. ‘(He shall not approach?) Ennun-dagalla, he shall not remove his crowns.’ ” (Here follows another mutilated passage, describing how “the Elamite, the wicked man,” proclaimed something to the lands, and how he dwelt and stayed in Dû-maḫa.) (At this point is the end of the obverse, and there is a considerable gap before there are any further fairly complete passages.) “When the guardian spoke peace (to the city) The guardian-bulls of Ê-šarra, [the temple of the host of the gods], departed. The enemy, the Elamite, multiplied evils, And Bêl allowed evil to be planned against Babylon.” “When righteousness was absent (?), then was decided (?) also the destruction Of Ê-šarra, the temple of the host of the gods, the guardian-bulls departed. The enemy, the Elamite, took its goods— Bêl, dwelling upon it, had displeasure.” “When the magicians repeated their evil words (?), Gullum(47) and the evil wind performed their evil (?). Then their gods departed—they departed like a torrent. Storm and evil wind went round in the heavens. Anu, their creator, had displeasure. He made pale their face, he made desolate his place, He destroyed the barrier in the shrine of Ê-anna, (He overthrew?) the temple, and the platform shook.” “ .... he decreed destruction, ..... he had disfavour. The people (?) of Bêl of Ê-zida barred (?) the road to Šumer. Who is Kudurlaḫgu(mal), the doer of the evils? He has gathered also the Umman-man(da against?) the people (?) of Bêl— He has laid in ruin . . . by their side.”