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Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)
I have not neglected the instructions of my lord Šulgi: both at night and in the noonday heat I xx my neck; I xx the workload (?) concerned. Since his childhood, Apillaša has xx (1 ms. has instead:) has not xx . A man such as he knows my heart, as your eyes know (1 ms. has instead:) have seen . My lord, with the open eye of a god, xx to (?) an evildoer xx (1 ms. has instead:) you (?) know the evildoer . While the great xx official of all the foreign lands surpasses xx, my lord, you (?) surpass all great things, xx an equal.