(1) Palace of Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria, obedient governor, who fears the great gods, son of Esarhaddon, King of the World, King of Assyria, son of Sennacherib, King of the World, King of Assyria, to whom Nabu and Nisaba have given life and protected his kingship … their vast wisdom, for the life of his soul, to extend his days … to establish firmly his rule, to fix securely his royal throne … his gleaming features … for health, happiness and good feeling they constantly go before him in healthiness.

(14) He wrote, checked and collated, and placed in the library of Nabu, his lord, in Nineveh.