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

At night the skilled and beautiful one (?), the joy of An, the ornament of broad heaven, appears like moonlight; in the heat of the noon she appears like sunlight. After the storehouses of the Land have been filled with fine food, and all the lands and the black-headed people have assembled, (1 ms. adds:) and the storehouses of the Land have been made full (?), those who sleep on the roofs and those who sleep by the walls step up before her with xx and bring her their cases. Then she makes her orders known, and identifies the evil. She judges the evil as evil and destroys the wicked. She looks with favour on the just and determines a good fate for them.