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A praise poem of Išme-Dagan (Išme-Dagan AA)
Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)
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UM 29-15-173
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — Old Babylonian
English
In Isin, the royal city, Išme-Dagan, xx for you in masterly fashion a fifty-headed battle-mace to destroy the rebel lands, chosen for your great power. For you he gave it fifty names. From Isin he xx it for you into Nibru, the primeval, well-established city and xx to be marvelled at in the E-šu-me-ša, the majestic residence that xx fearsomeness, at the gate of Igi-šu-galam, the place where fates are decided.
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