The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue)
1-10. Lord who inspires awe in heaven and on earth,
who is resplendent in the Land, engendered for kingship by your father,
your awesomeness weighs upon the black-headed.
The Anuna, the great gods, cower together before your awesomeness and radiance.
(Nergal, Lord of the Under World with lion-headed weaponry)
Nergal, lord who inspires awe in heaven and on earth,
who is resplendent in the Land, engendered for kingship by your father,
your awesomeness weighs upon the black-headed.
The Anuna (Anunnaki), the great gods, cower together before your awesomeness and radiance.
11-20. Hero, after your father begot you,
your father Enlil bestowed on you the mountain of the earth and all of the people.
He definitively handed the deciding of destinies to you.
(Nergal killing earthling; Nergal, in some texts Enlil’s son, in other texts Enki’s & Inanna’s son)
Hero, Nergal, you are their king!
Nergal, hero, after your father begot you,
your father Enlil bestowed on you the mountain of the earth and all of the people.
He definitively handed the deciding of destinies to you.
Hero, Nergal, you are their king!
21-30. Lord who imposes silence, son of Enlil, who in his heroism like a flood demands respect (?)!
May the people of Lagaš (Lagash) spread on your pure table everything you need.
Nergal, may you stretch forth your arm over the place Lagaš.
Nergal, lord who imposes silence, son of Enlil, who in his heroism like a flood demands respect (?)!
May the people of Lagaš spread on your pure table everything you need.
Nergal, may you stretch forth your arm over the place Lagaš.
31.Sa-gida.
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…… heroism, …… Uzarpara (?), the shrine ……, you are Mešlamta-ea,
……. Nergal, lord, you are the Enlil of his Land.
(Enlil Inanna Utu Enki Isimud)
Like Alla (Utu) (?), you have no rival.
Like Ištaran (Ninurta), it has been given to you to reach correct judgments.
42-51. Enlil, shepherd of the black-headed (earthlings),
has given you as your name “Lord who leads away the enemies of Enlil, avenger of his father, strong hero”.
The gods have determined your fate.
They have given …… to you.
On earth you are ……, in heaven you are …….
Because of your noise no god opposes you.
Just young man who …… the plague, provider for the place Lagaš,
(Nergal, spouse to Ereshkigal, Queen of the Under World)
Mešlamta-ea (Nergal), may people praise you in song!
52-61. Lord of the just word, lord of abundance, hero!
At your name, people obey.
Frightening sea like a rising ……, with your kingship you inspire terrifying fear.
Hero, with your magnificent strength …… you pile up the rebel lands in heaps.
Nergal, your name is praised in song.
May the lady, An’s (Anu) daughter, the lady who loves her city,
(Bau, King An’s royal daughter with her guard dog)
Bau (Gula) who concerns herself with you, in Iri-kug (Isin), her city of ladyship,
make your appointed …… famous for a reign of distant days.
63. A tigi of Nergal.