ETCSLglossingSignSignSign name: AB2.KU
Values: unud

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B) (c.2.4.2.02), line c24202.222
gal-zunam-lugalan-ta-ĝal2-bi-me-en
gal-zunam-lugalan-ta-ĝal2
skilfulkingshipexalted
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Paragraph t24202.p18 (line(s) 221-243) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
When I pronounce a completed verdict, it is heartily welcomed, since I am wise and exalted in kingship. So that my consultative assemblies, sitting together to care for the people, inspire respect in their hearts when the chief herald sounds the horn, they should deliberate and debate; and so that the council should decide policy properly, I have taught my governors to deliberate and to debate. While the words at their dining tables flow like a river, I tackle crime, so that the foundations are securely established for my wide dominions. I vanquish a city with words as weapons, and my wisdom keeps it subjected just as violence with burning torches would. I have taught them the meaning of the words "I have no mother". My words can be words smooth as the finest quality oil; I know how to cool hearts which are hot as fire, and I know how to extinguish a mouth set on fire like a reedbed. I weigh my words against those of the braggart. I am a man of the very highest standards of value. The importance of the humble is of particular value to me, and they cannot be counter-productive to any of my activities. By command of An and by command of Enlil, prayers are said for the life of the Land and for the life of the foreign lands, and I neither neglect them nor allow them to be interrupted.
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