Letter From Ur-saga to a King

fearing the loss of his father’s household: composite text

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue)

         2bc-nanna-his-symbol  (Nannar, son to Prince Enlil, grandson to King Anu, & Moon Crescent God of Ur)

       1-2 Speak to my lord, the bull (1 ms. has instead: wild bull)

       (1 other ms. has instead: bison (?)) with sparkling eyes, who wears a lapis-lazuli (blue-hued gemstone) beard:

       3-5 Repeat to my golden statue born on a favourable day,

         animals-gods-beasts

       to my water buffalo reared in a holy fold, chosen in the heart of holy Inana (Inanna)

         Cylinder seal and imprint, from Syria, 18th BCE. Presentation-scene before a warrior god. Steatite, H: 2,7 cm AO 21988  (Inanna, Ninsun, Utu with foot upon earthling, & Nannar)

       (1 ms. has instead: of holy Inana, …… of Suen) (Sin / Nannar), to my lord, the trusted one of Inana:

         3b-anu-of-planet-nibiru (Anu, King of alien giant Anunnaki on planet Nibiru, & their Earth Colony)

       6-9 You are fashioned like the son of An (Anu).

       As with the words of a god, what you say is irrevocable

       (1 ms. has instead: all the foreign lands cannot answer (?) your words).

       Your words, like rain pouring from the skies, are uncountable

       (1 ms. has instead: are uncheckable) (1 other ms. has instead: are uncontrollable (?)):

       this is what Ur-saga, your servant, says:

       10-14 My lord has taken care of me (2 mss. have instead: has not taken care of me);

         3ca-nannars-house-city-of-ur  (Nannar‘s temple residence in Ur, & “Stairway to Heaven“)

       I am a citizen of Urim (Ur).

       If my lord agrees (1 ms. has instead: If it pleases my lord), let no one waste my father’s household,

       let no one take away the home of my father’s estate (1 ms. has instead: my old man’s home)!

       May my lord know this!