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Now this is the account of the prophecy by Galzu to Enlil in a vision given; About Marduk's supremacy it was, how a calamity to survive a man choose.
After Marduk Amun became, Kingship in the Second Region disinterated, disorder and confusion reigned;
After Agade was wiped out, in the First Region there was disorder, confusion reigned.
In the First Reagon Kingship was in disrray, from Cities of Gods to Cites of Man it moved about,
Unug-ki, Lagash, Urim and Kish, Isin and to faraway places Kingship was shifting.
Then Enlil, with Anu consulting, Kingship in the hands of Nannar deposited;
To Urim, in whose soil the divine Heavenly Bright Object remained implanted, Kingship for the third time was granted. In Urim a Righteous Shepherd of men Nannar as king appointed, Ur-Nammu was his name.
Equity in the lands Ur-Nammu established, to violence and strife an end he made, in all the lands prosperity was abundant.
It was at that time that in the nightime Enlil a dream-vision had: The image of a man to him appeared, bright and shining like the heavens he was;
As he approached and by Enlil's bed stood, the white-haired Galzu recognized!
In his left hand a tablet of lapis lazuli he was holding, the starry heavens on it were designed;
By the twelve constellation signs were the heavens divided, then with his left hand Galzu pointed.
From the Bull to the Ram Galzu his pointing shifted; three times the pointing he repeated.
Then in the dream-vision Galzu spoke up and to Enlil thus said: The righteous time of benevolence and peace by evildoing and bloodshed will be followed.
In three celestial portions the Ram of Marduk the Bull of Enlil will replace,
One who himself as Supreme God has declared.