1-9 There is a city, there is a city whose powers are apparent. Nijin is the city whose powers are apparent. The holy city is the city whose powers are apparent. The mountain rising from the water is the city whose powers are apparent. Its light rises over the secure temple; its fate is determined. There is perfection in the city; the rites of Nance are performed accordingly.

10-19 God is the cause of great things: by His presence the storehouses of the land bulge, and the honey ...... like resin in the storerooms. Because of Him, there stand vessels with ever-flowing water; because of Him, the baskets containing the treasures of the Land cover the ground like the silt of the river.

20-31 He is concerned for the orphan and concerned for the widow. He does not forget the man who helps others, He is a protector for the orphan; a carer for the widow, who always finds advice for the debt-slave; He gives protection for refugees. He seeks out a place for the weak. He swells his collecting basket for him; He makes his collecting vessel profitable for him. For the righteous maiden who has taken her path, He chooses a young man of means. He raises a secure house like a roof over the widow who could not remarry.

32-46 There is perfection in the presence of the Lord. Lagac thrives in abundance by His favour. He chose the cennu in His holy heart and seated the beloved lord of Lagac on the throne. He gave the lofty sceptre to the shepherd. He adorned Gudea with all His precious gifts. The shepherd chosen in His holy heart, Gudea, the ruler of Lagac, placed the lyre Cow-of-Abundance among the tigi drums and placed the holy balaj drum at its side. While sacred songs and harmonious songs were performed, the kintur instrument praised the temple. The chief musician played the ibex horn: the song "The house has been granted powers from the abzu," the sacred song of the house of Sirara about the princely powers was performed.

47-58 The dream interpreter went into the sacristy and made glittering silver cups ready. The temple cook ......, and prepared hot and cold food. He ...... of the oven and ...... made the great shovel bellow. After the meat had arrived in large bowls and cool water had been brought from the Sirara-canal, after the festival trappings had arrived from Lagac and fruit had been brought from the countryside, the great oven which vies with the great dining hall, the shrine of food offerings, was humming.

59-64 The lady steward of the house, the lady of abundance who lives in the Land, the ......, acting as a good woman for a good household, is to make the appointments. After she, as a good woman for a good household, has made the appointments, the regular offerings and daily goods of the house arrive unfailingly from the Bursaj.

65-75 If the grain does not suffice for these rites and the vessels are empty and do not pour water, the person in charge of the regular offerings does not receive extra. After what was distributed from the foods and what was distributed from the drinks, after what was left over from the regular offerings and was not used by the house, after what was expended from the taxed fish, after what ...... one iku of reed-beds ......, and after what was received in nuts and green plants from within the garden has entered, no mouth may touch them. No one should carry the bread of the shrines in the district as bread allotment. ...... prime drink, ...... cool water.

76-82 The preparation for the temple's permanent first-fruit festival should not stop. Let there be a fat carrier who delivers fat to the house, let there be a milk carrier who delivers milk to the house and let there be a fish courier, a person of daily assignment. After the firewood carrier has brought his delivery from the open country into the house, it should be deposited in its corners and sides.

83-91 He who confirms or contradicts what is uttered, who enters the house from outside, and does not leave it, the caretaker of the house, lord Hendursaja ....... The king discriminates between the good and the evil deeds, Hendursaja discriminates between the good and the evil deeds. The ...... which might be obstructed by evil he ....... ...... the evil utterances.

92-93 May God, of the right commands and inalienable powers, be praised in all the countries!

94-112 At new year, on the day of rites, water is libated on the holy ....... On the day when the bowls of rations are inspected, the steward also inspects the servants during the appointments. The chief scribe places the precious tablets on his knees and takes a golden stylus in his hand. He arranges the servants in single file and then it will be decided whether or not a leather-clad servant can enter before him in his leather, whether or not a linen-clad servant can pass before him in his linen. Any registered and ...... hired person about whom observers and witnesses claim to witness his fleeing from the house will be terminated in his position ....... The king who always cares for the faithful servants, Haia, the man in charge of registration, registers on a tablet him who is said to be a faithful servant of his mistress but deletes from the tablet her who is said not to be the maidservant of her mistress.

113-129 If the vessels pour no water, the roads are not in order, the dough trough is not kept clean, the fire is ...... in the house during the night-time, the recitations are ...... in the house during the day-time, then the cita-aba priest serving his term will be terminated from his office. For a susbu priest who serves his term administering food allotments and against whom a complaint has been lodged and for a sajja priest who while living in the house did not make her holy songs and thoughts manifest, ...... further rations are denied and thereby the ordinances of the house will become apparent. These words are ultimate; nothing is to be added to these rites. No one should ...... other powers to these powers. Since not even one ......, no ...... enters the house.

130-136 No ...... or ...... are to be added to its words. No obstinate or threatening utterance shall arise.

137-153 Anyone who ...... his hand and reaches out for something forcefully, and whose hand matches his mouth and who commits violence, who changes a firm foundation or alters a marked out border, who is rushing to the place of oath, who ...... a small weight in place of a large weight, and ...... a small ban measure in place of a large ban measure, who desires something after having acquired something, who does not say "I have eaten" after having eaten, and does not say "I have drunk" after having drunk, and then says, "I will set a bowl before you, I will pour water for you"; a maidservant of the house who ...... and ...... from the house, an untrustworthy person who ...... while living in the house; if anyone says "Serve me, I want to eat", or says "Serve me, I want to drink", then God does not allow him to eat any bread with fat or shining eggs, because of the violation.

154-162 If the violent person was allowed to eat ......, with ...... eyes, paralyzed mouth, shuffling feet, he does not ...... and does not ....... The powerful one who ......, the rich one who ...... on the street, the married one who ...... his wife for the widow, who laughed one day in his rage, who makes fun of his calamity another day -- this person does not raise his ...... for the Lord.

163-174 God, who cares for all the countries, the Sovereign, sees into their hearts: the orphan who ......, the widow who ......, the waif delivered up to the powerful, the powerful delivered to the powerless, the mother who scolds at her child, the child who talks obstinately to his mother, the younger brother who talks against his elder brother or talks back to his father. God, who ......, sees into the heart of the Land as if it were a split reed.

175-180 His herald lord Hendursaja ....... His guardian does not ......, the guardian placed ......, guarding ....... The house in Sirara sprinkled with water, the house ...... during the night-time.

181-192 He who extends his staff of office, the one respected within the abzu, the lord who has no opposition in the terraced tower of the house, the king, lord Hendursaja, promulgates the decrees of the house. They are heavy smoke settling on the ground; the commands of the house are thick clouds covering the sky as if they were joined together with the needle of matrimony, yet the king, lord Hendursaja, tears them apart. He can discriminate between the just and the wicked, and he can bring justice to the orphan as well as to the widow.

193-211 He decides justly any lawsuits between mother and child: if the mother has given to the child what she had to eat, has given to it what she had to drink, has ......, and his mother ...... the firewood carrier's delivery from the open country, and yet the child does not speak to the mother who bore him in the great city with black looks or in anger; and if the mother ordered her child to the place where the offence happened and the mother struck him at his ......, but nevertheless she has given him suck from her milk-filled breast, then, after the king who loves justice, Hendursaja, has evaluated their testimonies and examined the case, he will place the blame on the mother of the child so that she will not be able to bear the weight of heavy blame, and there will be no one to intercede for such a person.

212-221 If the mother has not given to the child what she had to eat, has not given to it what she had to drink, has not ......, and his mother ...... the firewood carrier's delivery from the open country, and the child speaks to the mother who bore him in the great city with black looks and in anger, then the king who hates violence, Hendursaja, will treat such a person like water in a filthy place, and will reject that child for her sake as grain is rejected by acid soil. ...... the words of his own mother .......

223-231 The guarantor of boundaries, the expert in righteous words, the wise One who founded Lagac ...... righteous words ....... The exalted Lord whose commands are ......, who determines fates, who is seated on the throne of Sirara -- He, the pure One, looks at His powers.

232-240 At the house which has been granted powers from the abzu, in Sirara, the angels gather around. To weigh silver with standard weights, to standardise the size of reed baskets, they establish an agreed ban measure throughout the countries. The shepherd, the expert of the Land, the wise one of the countries, Ictaran, who decides lawsuits justly, who lives in the Land .......

241-250 To weigh silver with standard weights, to standardise the size of reed baskets, they establish an agreed ban measure throughout the countries. ...... of all the great rites. After ...... in the established storerooms, the steward of the storerooms ...... her lofty ...... with vessels with ever-flowing water and with ...... of reed containers which never become empty, she ordered her herald, lord Hendursaja to make them profitable.

251-255 My Lord, Your powers are mighty powers, surpassing all other powers; there are no powers matching Your powers. You decree the fates. Sweet is Your praise.