Praise of King Gudea

11.

I had debts remitted and washed all hands.

For seven days no grain was ground.

12.

The slave-woman was allowed to be equal to her mistress,

the slave was allowed to walk side by side with his master.

In my city, the one [that was] unclean to someone was permitted to sleep outside.

13.

I paid attention to the justice ordained by Nanse and Ningirsu;

I did not expose the orphan to the wealthy person

nor did I expose the widow to the influential one.

In a house having no male child, I let the daughter become its heir.

14.

He purified the holy city and encircled it with fires.

He collected clay in a very pure place;

in a pure place he made silt into the bricks and put the bricks into the mould.

15.

He followed the rites in all their splendor:

he purified the foundations of the temple,

surrounded it with fires, anointed the platforms with an aromatic balm.

16.

From Elam came the Elamites, from Susa the Susians.

Magan and Muluhha collected timber from their mountains,

and Gudea brought them together in his town Girsu.

17.

Gudea, the great en-priest of Ningirsu,

made a path into the Cedar mountains which nobody had entered before;

he cut its cedars with great axes.

Like giant snakes, cedars were floating down the river

18.

In the quarries that nobody had entered before, Gudea, the great en-priest of Ningirsu,

made a path and then the stones were delivered in large blocks.

19.

Many other precious metals were carried to the ensi.

From the copper mountians of Kimash, its mountains as dust.

20.

For Gudea, the mined silver from its mountains delivered red stone from Meluhha in great amount.

Praises of the Beneficient Kings CHAPTER TWO

Divisions 21-40

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