(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, [son of Tukultī-Ni]nurta (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of [Adad-nārārī (II), appointee of the god En]lil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur,

(4) the one who conquered (everything) from [(...)] the slopes of the mountains of the Lullumê, the interior of the land Ḫabḫu, the land Zamua, (and) the land Ḫašmar, a[ll of them, to the land Amu]rru, Mount Amanus, and Mount Lebanon, as far as the Great Sea; [I counted (all of this territory) as within the boundar](ies) of m[y] land. [They] annually [brou]ght their substantial tribute and I received (it) in my city, Aššur.

(11) At that time, the temple of the gods Sîn and [Šama]š, the great gods, my lords, which the kings [who had come before me had b]uilt, had [become dilapidat]ed. I (re)built (it) [fro]m its foundations to its crenellations.