SpTU 4, 141 [Temple-building rituals][via cams/gkab]

(o 1) When Anu created [...] (and)

(o 2) Nudimmud created the Apsu, [...],

(o 3) Ea broke off clay in the Apsu.

(o 4) [...] Kulla for your (the brick's) renovation.

(o 5) [...] reed-bed and forest for work on your shape.

(o 6) [...] Ninildum, Ninsimug and Arazu as the perfecter of (gloss: new break).

(o 7) [...] mountains and seas for (gloss: new break) everything.

(o 8) [...] Kusibanda, Ninagal, (gloss: new break).

(o 9) [...] caring reliably for ... and (gloss: [...] break).

(o 10) [...] purifying great [...] (gloss: [...] break).

(o 11) [...], Siraš, Ningišzida, (gloss: [...] break).

(o 12) [...] consenting ... (and) for (gloss: new break).

(o 13) [...] abundant yield of (gloss: new break) ... Umunmutamnag (gloss: new break).

(o 14) [...] of the great gods as the perfecter of (gloss: new [...]).

(o 15) [...] your provisioning role.

(o 16) [...] ... [...].

(r 1') [...] that [...] temple ... : he pours ... [...].

(r 2') May he make their seed their ... [...] and [...].

(r 3') [...] ... release their guilt [...].

(r 4') [...] ... hear the expert [...].

(r 5') [...] may Ninildum bring plenty to completion, [...] your (building) work at your command.

(r 6') [...] ... above and below, as many as Šamaš pastures [...].

(r 7') May they bring their [...] into Eana, all of the chapels and all of the shrines [...].

(r 8') [...] ... they built settlements for him : and may the scattered people gather for him.

(r 9') [...] ... the regular full floods : let me [...] with abundant mules (and) grain.

(r 10') May he serve them abundance and plenty : may he turn countless sacred precincts into ruin mounds, the flood [...].

(r 11') [...] into ashes into your hand [...].

(r 12') [...] Eana, all of the chapels and all of the shrines, may he kill them quickly with his mighty weapon.

(r 13') They built [...] of pure [...] for the great gods.

(r 14') [...] ... after demolishing a god's temple and constantly performing the ritual procedures. When the wall of a god's temple buckles, for the demolishing and renovating, in a favourable month on a propitious day the diviner raises a lamb over the king's hem and, in accordance with (the the conventions for) an oracular answer in divination, recites 'When the wall of a god's temple buckles' and thus offers this lamb for an oracular answer.

(r 17') If it is offered with a favourable outcome, this demolishing and rebuilding will later be turned into good fortune. During the demolishing and rebuilding muhhuru-offerings (and) taqribtu-laments are performed.

(r 19') The singer does not cease the song. The kalû-priest [...] the serqu-offerings, maqqītu-libations and recitation.

(t.e. 1) Tablet of what is required in the domain of the kalû-priest. [...] according to the wording of a ... tablet, according to a copy from [...].

(t.e. 2) [...] one who knows all about everything : tablet of Ištar-šum-ereš, son of Iqiša [...].