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A hymn to Suen for Ibbi-Suen (Ibbi-Suen E)

Sumerian literature (ETCSL) · 2 - Royal praise poetry and compositions with a historical background · 21 sections

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   ⌈?⌉-zu ⌈NE⌉ […]

   Your divine powers ……, Father Nanna, ……, …… chose from the people ……. Youthful Suen, your holy shrine ……. An, you …… your good crown and headdress on your head. When you take your seat on the great august dais ……. When you open your holy mouth, …… the great …… and the divine powers. …… the royal crown, the holy headdress and the diadem, gathering together the throne and the divine powers, on the dais with head high …….

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   a-a {d}nanna X X […]

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   uĝ3-ĝa2 mi-ni-pad3 ? […]

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   šul {d}suen KI.LUGAL.GUB-zu kug […]

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   an aga zid men saĝ-ĝa2-zu za-e […]

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   ki barag gal maḫ dur2 ĝar-ra-zu ? […]

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   ka kug ba-a-zu u18-ru gal me pa […]

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   aga nam-lugal-la men kug suḫ10-gir11 […]

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    {ĝiš}gu-za me ur4-ur4 barag saĝ il2 X […]

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    peš10-ĝal2 nam barag-ga numun ⌈zid⌉ […]

    Mighty (?) one of the dais, …… good seed ……, my Ibbi-Suen, …… from holy An, lord who sanctifies the divine powers, who purifies the divine powers, who makes brilliant the purification rites, ……, with shining horns, the light of heaven, youthful Suen ……, great ……, ……. Wide-armed Nibru, …… in his holy heart by Nanna, beneficent prince over the full extent of heaven and earth, …… moonlight ……, manifest bull, as august as Enlil, …… (2 lines broken) (unknown no. of lines missing)

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    {d}i-bi2-{d}suen-ĝu10 an kug-ta nam X […]

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    en me kug-ku3-ug me sikil šu-luḫ zalag ⌈nam⌉ […]

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    si mul-mul su3-ra2-aĝ2 an-na ⌈šul⌉ [{d}suen …]

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    ud te-eš-e gal idim-ma ḫi-li-? ki […]

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    nibru{ki} a2 tal2-tal2 {d}nanna šag4 kug […]

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    nun zi-le an ki šu2-a-ba iti6 X […]

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    ⌈?⌉ pa e3 {d}en-lil2-da maḫ dib ḪI X […]

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    [X] X X AN […] X X ? ? […]

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    […] X […]

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The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Copyright holders: Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Jarle Ebeling, Esther Flückiger-Hawker, Eleanor Robson, Jon Taylor and Gábor Zólyomi. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Source.