Source: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Artifacts and parenthetical commentary added by editor R. Brown.
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(E-kur, Enlil’s mud-brick-built ziggurat residence in Nippur)
1–12
In the E-kur (__Enlil’s home in Nippur), the house …
The great gods … to your upraised hands.
… holy lap for your exceedingly pleasant life.
… for its good reign … Icme-Dagan, the (semi-divine mixed-breed) son of Enlil …
… joy (?) in the Egal-mah, your ladylike house (ziggurat residence of Bau in Nippur).
… the prince … mec tree with shining branches …
… to make his life pleasant …Icme-Dagan …
… holy … the child of An (Anu)…
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… brick-built E-kur…
13 Sa-jara.
(Dagan, God of the Seas / Enki)
14 Dagan, you have … the shepherd Icme-Dagan, the son (descendant) of Enlil, with a royal garment.
15 Jicgijal of the sa-jara.
16–17 The lofty lord, … the divine powers (alien technologies) of heaven and the divine powers of the earth;
Dagan, the august lord, … the divine powers of heaven and the divine powers of the earth.
18 He has chosen Icme-Dagan in the Land, he …
Colophon (line 19): Its uru.
Colophon (line 20): An adab of Dagan.
(ll. 19 and 20 are written as one line in the source)