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Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)

As for you, lie in sleep! May your palm tree, extending its fronds, spread joy like a fig tree (?). Place coals (?) beside Urim! Place charcoal beside Unug! Seize the enemy's mouth like xx! Bind his arms like reed bundles! Make the enemy cower before you, lest he rip open your back like a sack, [4 lines fragmentary] [approx. 6 lines missing] [4 lines fragmentary] [unknown no. of lines missing]