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 groves2 of Assyria.
Notes
1 Lacuna.
2 Or “orchards.”