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Plain text of A shir-namshub for Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma E)

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1-8 Those who leave through your gate are an uncontrollable flood. Shrine Urim, your interior is a mountain of abundance, your exterior a hill of plenty. No one can learn the interior of the E-kic-nujal, the artfully fashioned mountain. Your place of marvel is ...... of cedar, your name makes the Land rejoice. Your lord is the one called the beautiful lord, the ornament of all the lands. Urim, your great blessing is a restraint on the Land. Your name be praised indeed!

9-12 Your gate is the blue sky imbued with fearsomeness; only when it is open does the sun illuminate from the horizon. Your platform is where fates are determined by God's decree; you make just decisions. Your name be praised indeed!

13-19 In your interior, the evildoer dares not lay hold of the holy statutes. E-kic-nujal, the evil-doer cannot even come to know your interior, which is a dragon. Your E-giguna ...... your offerings. At your Dubla-mah, the place where the fates are determined, the angels carry out the decrees of fates. Worthy of the E-temen-ni-guru, born ......, your name be praised indeed!

20-24 The beautiful lord ...... the true shepherd Ur-Namma, ...... Urim ....... The E-siga ...... like the sun. Your name be praised indeed! Ur-Namma ......, adorned with a lapis lazuli beard .......

25-34 In His pure heart God has chosen Ur-Namma, the king endowed with allure, the radiance covering the nation. Wickedness cannot pass unnoticed before his eyes. Ur-Namma has accomplished an achievement, justice! The king, who knows (?) the spreading branches, Ur-Namma acts (?) as constable. The eloquent one of the lord, who knows (?) the spreading branches, Ur-Namma acts (?) as constable. The king, Ur-Namma, refreshes himself at the house of God.

35-40 A fate has been determined for the king, for the Tigris and the Euphrates and for Ur-Namma. God, the Lord of possessions, has determined a fate for Ur-Namma. He has treated him kindly. Ur-Namma .......