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A hymn to Suen for Ibbi-Suen (Ibbi-Suen E)


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1-9. Your divine powers ……, Father Nanna, ……, …… chose from the people ……. Youthful Suen, your holy shrine ……. An, you …… your good crown and headdress on your head. When you take your seat on the great august dais ……. When you open your holy mouth, …… the great …… and the divine powers. …… the royal crown, the holy headdress and the diadem, gathering together the throne and the divine powers, on the dais with head high …….

10-19. Mighty (?) one of the dais, …… good seed ……, my Ibbi-Suen, …… from holy An, lord who sanctifies the divine powers, who purifies the divine powers, who makes brilliant the purification rites, ……, with shining horns, the light of heaven, youthful Suen ……, great ……, ……. Wide-armed Nibru, …… in his holy heart by Nanna, beneficent prince over the full extent of heaven and earth, …… moonlight ……, manifest bull, as august as Enlil, ……
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Revision history

15.iv.1999-18.iv.1999: JAB, editor: adapting translation
28.vii.1999: GZ, editor: proofreading
29.vii.1999: GZ, editor: SGML tagging
03.ix.1999: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
03.ix.1999: ER, editor: web publication
01.vi.2003: GC/JE, editor/technical developer: XML/TEI conversion

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