W-B. 160. HYMN TO ENLIL-BANI.

19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . has entrusted to thee.
20. Vision has given thee.
22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24. She has destined thee to watch.
26. Justice thou causest to arise splendidly upon the Land.

28. Thy goodness the lands proclaim.
30. Enlil-bani, the counselor, possessor of exceeding wisdom,
32. The solicitous, (33) the just, the possessor of prudence.
34. Knower of all things.

Col. III.

1-2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3-4. Who the regular offerings (?) promotes (?).
5. Renderer of decisions . . . , (6) . . . . . .
7. . . . . . . . . , (8) who gives satisfaction to complaints.

9. Who . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to plaintiffs.
10. . . . . . , (11) . . . . . . . like gold
12. Thou causest to shine. (13) Injustice
14. thou punishest. (15) Hostility
16. with the flail thou destroyest. (17) Of transgression
18. thou knowest the releasing.
19. Pestilence, which none can slay,
21. Thou knowest to restrain. (22) Sweet words thou speakest,
23. Thou the merciful. (24) He that loves to bestow life art thou.
25. Giver of burnt offerings, he that presents offerings.
27. Foremost of governors, (28) Mighty sagdun, the labag.

1. Cf. "enim-dib-ba-mu" = "pirišti-ia," RA. 11, 145, 21.
2. "mukīn libbi ša pāḳiri".
3. Cf. Gudea, Cyl. A 8, 4; 13, 11.
4. Or read "mê". Literally "to use the whip."
5. Cf. "zi-ba" = "ḳāišat napišti," KAR. 73 R. 15.
6. Cf. "Sum. Gr." 199, 47.
7. "ku-nu" = "ḳarābu," "ḳirēbu," "ṭahû" (RA. 11, 144, 16) and "gana" = "ḳarābu," CT. 12, 10 a 1.
8. For "sug" == "šakû" (?).
9. Variant of "sag-tún," a kind of scribe. Cf. Gudea, Cyl. B 11, 24; RT. 19, 51 No. 10.
10. Cf. "ilu"La-ba-ag-kalag", CRAIG, RT. 57, 22; "labag" for "lù-bag"?