The other restoration mentioned is that of a temple to Vul only, which, like that to Anu and Vul conjointly, had been originally built by Shamas-Vul, the son of Ismi-Dagon.  This building had likewise fallen into decay, but had not been taken down like the other.  Tiglath-Pileser states that he “levelled its site,” and then rebuilt it “from its foundations to its roofs.” enlarging it beyond its former limits, and adorning it.  Inside of it he “sacrificed precious victims to his lord, Vul.”  He also deposited in the temple a number of rare stones or marbles, which he had obtained in the country of the Nairi in the course of his expeditions.

The inscription then terminates with the following long invocation:—­

“Since a holy place, a noble hall, I have thus consecrated for the use of the Great Gods, my lords Anu and Vul, and have laid down an adytum for their special worship, and have finished it successfully, and have delighted the hearts of their noble godships, may Anu and Vul preserve me in power!  May they support the men of my government!  May they establish the authority of my officers!  May they bring the rain, the joy of the year, on the cultivated land and the desert, during my time!  In war and in battle may they preserve me victorious!  Many foreign countries, turbulent nations, and hostile kings I have reduced under my yoke! to my children and my descendants, may they keep them in firm allegiance!  I will lead my steps” (or, “may they establish my feet"), “firm as the mountains, to the last days, before Asshur and their noble godships!

“The list of my victories and the catalogue of my triumphs over foreigners hostile to Asshur, which Anu and Vul have granted to my arms, I have inscribed on my tablets and cylinders, and I have placed, [to remain] to the last days, in the temple of my lords, Ann and Vul.  And I have made clean (?) the tablets of Shamas-Vul, my ancestor; I have made sacrifices, and sacrificed victims before them, and have set them up in their places.  In after times, and in the latter days..., if the temple of the Great Gods, my lords Anu and Vul, and these shrines should become old and fall into decay, may the Prince who comes after me repair the ruins!  May he raise altars and sacrifice victims before my tablets and cylinders, and may he set them up again in their places, and may he inscribe his name on them together with my name!  As Anu and Vul, the Great Gods, have ordained, may he worship honestly with a good heart and full trust!

“Whoever shall abrade or injure my tablets and cylinders, or shall moisten them with water, or scorch them with fire, or expose them to the air, or in the holy place of God shall assign them a place where they cannot be seen or understood, or shall erase the writing and inscribe his own name, or shall divide the sculptures (?) and break them off from my tablets, may Anu and Vul, the Great Gods, my lords, consign his name to perdition!  May they curse him with an irrevocable