A balbale to Enlil for Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma G): translation

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(gods in bluemixed-breed demigods in teal…)

 

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1ae - Enlil, Babylonian James Charles Kaelin, Jr. Webmaster & Digitizer EarthStation1 http://earthstation1.simplenet.com wandarer@earthlink.net

     (Enlil in command;  giant mixed-breed king Ur-Nammu stands before Nannar, god of Ur)

Enlil …… to (Ur King) Ur-Namma.

He bestowed on him (?) early floods, grain and speckled barley.

 

2ab - Ur-Nammu, Ninsun's son king, 2300-2000 B.C.  2k - King Ur-Nammu Rebuilds Nannar's Home (Ur-Namma; Ur-Nammu the worker)

9-15 Ur-Namma, may the people flourish in prosperity under your rule.

You (?) …… the plow and good barley, and your cultivated fields will be rich.

Farming - 1st with date palms  (above: Ur-Nammu & Nannar; below: Ninurta, Ur-Nammu, & earthling cup bearer)

You (?) …… trees, seeds, good barley, the plow, and the fields.

You (?) …… the plow and good barley …….

7f - sumer farming, plowing  (early earthlings do the hard labor for the alien gods)

King, cultivate the fields with oxen, and your cultivated fields will be rich;

Ur-Namma, cultivate the fields with them, and your cultivated fields will be rich.

The oxen will make (?) your cultivated fields fertile; your cultivated fields will be rich.

 

Figure of a god on top of a foundation nail. Such nails were buried in the foundation walls of temples, to hold a dedication tablet or because it was thought they gave stability to the walls.Period of king Ur-Bau or Gudea, around 2100 BCE. Bronze, H: 29 cm AO 311  2i - mixed-breed Ur-Nammu   2h - Ur-Nammu King of Ur, 2111-2194 B.C. 

        (Ningishzidda, builder of pyramids & ziggurats;     foundation pegs of Ur-Nammu bringing the bounty from the fields)

16-27 My king, when you have finished with all the work on the fields of Enlil;

Ur-Namma, when you have finished with all the work on the fields of Enlil,

may the rains of heaven make the furrows that you laid out sprout abundantly.

King, faithful farmer, you have …… the levees and ditches in the wide fields;

Ur-Namma, faithful farmer, you have …… the levees and ditches on the wide fields.

2e - Babylonian Shamash 2000B.C.  (broken king before giant alien god Utu, Nannar‘s son, symbolized as the Sun)

Like the rising Utu (Enlil‘s grandson, Sun God), the levees and ditches …….

My king, ……; Ur-Namma, ……

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 (Anu‘s son & heir Enlil, also his Earth Colony Commander)

28 A balbale of Enlil.