Source: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Artifacts and parenthetical commentary added by editor R. Brown.
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(Enlil in command; giant mixed-breed king Ur-Nammu stands before Nannar, god of Ur)
Enlil … to (Ur King) Ur-Namma.
He bestowed on him (?) early floods, grain and speckled barley.
(Ur-Namma; Ur-Nammu the worker)
9–15
Ur-Namma, may the people flourish in prosperity under your rule.
You (?) … the plow and good barley, and your cultivated fields will be rich.
(above: Ur-Nammu & Nannar; below: Ninurta, Ur-Nammu, & earthling cup bearer)
You (?) … trees, seeds, good barley, the plow, and the fields.
You (?) … the plow and good barley …
(early earthlings do the hard labor for the alien gods)
King, cultivate the fields with oxen, and your cultivated fields will be rich;
Ur-Namma, cultivate the fields with them, and your cultivated fields will be rich.
The oxen will make (?) your cultivated fields fertile; your cultivated fields will be rich.
(Ningishzidda, builder of pyramids & ziggurats; foundation pegs of Ur-Nammu bringing the bounty from the fields)
16–27
My king, when you have finished with all the work on the fields of Enlil;
Ur-Namma, when you have finished with all the work on the fields of Enlil,
may the rains of heaven make the furrows that you laid out sprout abundantly.
King, faithful farmer, you have … the levees and ditches in the wide fields;
Ur-Namma, faithful farmer, you have … the levees and ditches on the wide fields.
(broken king before giant alien god Utu, Nannar’s son, symbolized as the Sun)
Like the rising Utu (Enlil’s grandson, Sun God), the levees and ditches …
My king, …; Ur-Namma, …
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(Anu’s son & heir Enlil, also his Earth Colony Commander)
Colophon (line 28): A balbale of Enlil.