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Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)
My king, when you have finished with all the work on the fields of Enlil; Ur-Namma, when you have finished with all the work on the fields of Enlil, may the rains of heaven make the furrows that you laid out sprout abundantly. King, faithful farmer, you have xx the levees and ditches in the wide fields; Ur-Namma, faithful farmer, you have xx the levees and ditches on the wide fields. Like the rising Utu, the levees and ditches xx. My king, xx; Ur-Namma, xx. [2 lines missing] [2 lines fragmentary]