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(1) [Sennacherib], king of the world, king of As[syria: Maniy]e, [the king of the city Uk]ku, [became frightened by my] batt[le] array, abandoned [the city Ukku], a city upon which he relied, [and] fled [far] away. (As for) the populati[on living] inside it, [who] had flown away like [bir]ds to the peak of a [rug]ged mountain, [I pu]rsued them and [def]eated them on the peak of (that) mountain. [I burned] the city Ukku, his royal city, with fi[re].