32Royal power over the people

33Enlil has decreed for thee.”

Second tablet.

Written upon ...

240 (lines).


[1] Literally “he attained my front.”

[2] IV¹ of walādu.

[3] I.e., in the suburb of Erech.

[4] patāḳu has apparently the same sense originally as batāḳu, although the one forms its preterite iptiḳ, and the other ibtuḳ. Cf. also maḫāṣu break, hammer and construct.