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A Praise Poem of Warad-Sîn, King of Larsa, to Nippur

  • Zsombor J. Földi EMAIL logo and Gábor Zólyomi
Published/Copyright: August 20, 2020
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Abstract

This paper publishes a praise poem of Warad-Sîn, king of Larsa. The manuscript, a one-column tablet, comes from a private collection and is unprovenanced. The text might be an excerpt from a longer composition. Its 20 lines long text praises first Nippur, the city of Enlil, then Warad-Sîn speaks in the first person about the commission given to him by Enlil, about his deeds to the city, and about their permanence. The author of this text appears to be familiar both with the literary corpus and the royal inscriptions of the early Old Babylonian period.

Acknowledgements

The authors are most grateful to Peter Kress, the owner of the tablet for his continuous help in the publication of the tablet. They thank Jeremiah Peterson for his comments on the text of the tablet, as well as the anonymous reviewer for his/her observations.

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