63/71 He lined the other side of the Euphrates with brick. He made a bridge ( ?) over the Euphrates, but did not finish its buttresses ( ?). (the name of a place) he made with bricks burnt as hard as stones, by the help of the great Lord Merodach, a way (for) a branch of the Shimat to the waters of the Yapur-Shapu, the great reservoir of Babylon, opposite to the gate of Nin. With two long embankments of brick and mortar I built the sides of its ditch. |