Origin/Historian/Author: Sumer, Ur (ca. 1850 BCE)
Source: Ur Excavations Royal Inscriptions, By C. J. Gadd and Leon Legrain, 1928
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(1) For Nannar
(2) his beloved king
(3) Dublal-makh
(4) from ancient days
(5) …..
(6) …..
(7) …..
(8) the house was not built:
(9) Bur-Sin,
(10) the beloved of Nannar
(11) whose name in Nippur
(12, 13) has been pronounced by Enlil,
(14) who exalts the head
(15) of Enlil’s temple
(16) the mighty man
(17) king of Ur,
(18) king of the four regions,
(19) Dublal-makh,
(20) the house, the wonder of the land,
(21) the place of his judgments,
(22) his net,
(23) which the enemy
(24) of Bur-Sin
(25) does not escape,
(26) this house he built for him,
(27) he finished it splendidly,
(28) with gold, silver, lapis lazuli
(29) he adorned it.
(30) The days of Bur-Sin
(31) shall be prolonged with it.
(32) Whoever, when the house is ruined,
(33) builds it,
(37) and does not change
(36) the place
(34) of this inscription
(35) and of this …. (?)
(38) may he find grace
(39) in the eyes of Nannar.
(40, 41) But whoever defaces this inscription,
(42) this …..
(43) to its place
(44) and does not return
(45) may Nannar
(46) set a serpent upon him,
(48) may Nannar
(49) destroy
(47) his posterity.