I did not allow the waters to overflow, but the fulness of their floods I caused to flow on, restraining them with a brick embankment....

Thus I completely made strong the defences of Babylon.

May it last forever!" [Here follows a similar account of works at Borsippa.] "In Babylon--the city which is the delight of my eyes, and which I have glorified--when the waters were in flood, they inundated the foundations of the great palace called Taprati-nisi, or 'the Wonder of Mankind;' (a palace) with many chambers and lofty towers; the high-place of Royalty; (situated) in the land of Babylon, and in the middle of Babylon; stretching from the Ingur-Bel to the bed of the Shebil, the eastern canal, (and) from the bank of the Sippara river, to the water of the Yapur-Shapu; which Nabopolassar my father built with brick and raised up; when the reservoir of Babylon was full, the gates of this palace were flooded.
I raised the mound of brick on which it was built, and made smooth its platform.

I cut off the floods of the water, and the foundations (of the palace) I protected against the water with bricks and mortar: and I finished it completely.

Long beams I set up to support it: with pillars and beams plated with copper and strengthened with iron I built up its gates.