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P225433: royal-monumental barrel

Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC) CDLI

Sumerian

(d)en-lil2-ba-ni sipa nig2-nam szar2-ra nibru(ki) engar sze (mah) ((ki)) uri5(ki)-ma musz3#! ((x)) nu!-tum2!-mu#! eridu#(ki#)-[ga] dam sza3-ge pa3-da (d#)inanna-me-en u4 nig2-si-sa2 ki#-en-gi ki#-uri i-ni-in-gar-ra e2-gal ussu-bi lugal-e-ne# mu#-du3#

AI Translation

For Enlilbani, the shepherd who makes everything plentiful for Nippur, the farmer who makes the barley plentiful for Ur, the one who does not fear Eridu, the wife chosen by the heart of Inanna, when justice in Sumer and Akkad he established, the palace, its foundations the king, he built.