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

After a close interrogation at the gate, nobody even bade me enter. When I finally entered, someone brought me a throne with studs plated with red gold and told me: "Sit down!" I replied: "I am here to present the instructions of my king. Therefore I will not sit down!""