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An excerpt from a royal praise poem (?)

Sumerian literature (ETCSL) · 2 - Royal praise poetry and compositions with a historical background · 5 sections

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   {d}nibru<{ki}> iri diĝir-re-⌈e-ne⌉ me ⌈saĝ⌉-[e-eš2 rig7 (…)]

   Nibru, the city where the divine powers are presented (?) to the gods ……. Nunamnir, the Great Mountain, the lord who embraces heaven and earth ……. My king, the shepherd of the black-headed people already in the womb ……. Adviser, who …… the divine powers of a supreme deity and the shepherd's crook ……. Enlil, your orders …… by the king.

2. 2

   {d}nu-nam-nir kur!((LU2?)) gal en an ki-da ⌈gu⌉ [la2 (…)]

3. 3

   lugal-ĝu10 sipad saĝ gig2-ga šag4-ta […]

4. 4

   sa2 pad3-de3 me nam-{d}en-lil2-la2 šibir ⌈AN⌉ […]

5. 5

   {d}en-lil2 dug4-ga-zu ⌈?⌉-e ⌈šu⌉ KA A […]

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.