XXXVIII
The pine, the …,[1] and the algum tree, these trees which under the former kings my ancestors, they had never planted, I took them from the countries which I had rendered tributary, and I planted them in the groves of my own territories, and I bought fruit trees; whatever I did not find in my own country, I took and placed in the groves[2] of Assyria.
[Footnote 1: Lacuna.]
[Footnote 2: Or "orchards.">[