(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 …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)
The following text, written in Uruk in the year 251 BCE, is part of a Babylonian chronicle, and deals with reign of the godless (?) Sumerian king Sulgi of Ur, whose reign can be dated to 2095-2047.
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Obverse At the command of [the gods] Anu and (spouse) Antu, I hope I may succeed in everything that I undertake and enjoy it fully. […] Ur-Nammu reigned eighteen years. (2113-2095)
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The divine Šulgi, son of a daughter of king Utu-hegal of Uruk, with the blind Lu-Nanna, the scholar […] – there was spitefulness in their hearts!- improperly tampered with the rites of the cult of Anu, Uruk‘s regulations, the secret knowledge of the wise, and put down in writing the forced labor exacted by Sin, lord of Ur.
concerning the rites of purification for the gods, and left them to posterity,
he covered his body with […]. (…)
Reverse […] predictions of Aku-batila […] have not […] the divine Šulgi reigned forty-eight years. (2095-2047)
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Amar–Sin reigned nine years. (2047-2038)
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Written according to its original, checked, revised, and edited. Copy of a wooden tablet, property of Anu and Antu. Tablet of Anu-aha-ušabši, son of Kidin-Ani, descendant of Ekur,zakir, the exorcist of Anu and Antu, the šešgallu-priest of the Bit-reši temple at Uruk. Hand of Anu-balassu-iqbi, his son. He wrote it to fulfill his education, the long duration of his days, his life, the perpetuity of his office and placed it in the Bit-reši, the temple of his lord in Uruk.
Uruk, month Abu, twenty-first day, sixty-first year [SE], Antiochus II, king of all lands. (15 August 251 BCE) |