Shulgi

"[O]ver all the foreign lands and the widespread people, each of their towns and all their provinces, and the people of the widespread Land lay in green meadows. I made them rest in spacious habitations, in peaceful dwelling places. As for their men and women: the man among them goes wherever he pleases, and the woman with spindle and hair clasp goes wherever she pleases. After they had set up stock-pens in the vastness of the desert, and established their tents and camps, the workmen and the labourers spend the days in the fields."

"Your matter is an important matter, and your affairs are great affairs."

"How could I bear a grudge? I am securing the foundations of the province, and making it obedient. My lord, no king can rival you; let your heart be glad!"

"Shepherd Culgi, you spread fearsomeness over the foreign countries. [...] Shepherd, your offspring will praise you duly."

"Let my roar be emitted over all the lands. Let my powerful arm, my heroic arm, fall upon all the lands. Let my storm cover the Land."

"Utu, assign a sweet destiny to the king."

"The orders are rigorous: you should not neglect your work load. They are to proceed with the building work by night and in the heat of noon. You will not be sleeping during the night or in the heat of noon!"

"A man such as he knows my heart, as your eyes know. My lord, with the open eye of a god."

"As I myself ordered, you were to secure the provinces, and to correctly guide the people and make them obedient. [...] That was how I had instructed you. Why have you not acted as I ordered you?"

"Let deserved praise be sung for me, that in every mouth I have put prudence, an attractive quality. [...] Let praise be sung, that I have shown strength in grappling and wrestling. [...] That I have made a return visit to the shrine Nibru and back along the road to Urim, and have marched a distance of 30 dana."

"Say to my lord: this is what Puzur-Culgi, the commander of the fortress Igi-hursaja, your servant, says: All the gold and silver that my lord has been fashioning for the gods -- is it not for his own life? For the life of the troops and his land, my king has built the great fortress Igi-hursaja for the people of his land, because of the wicked enemy. [...] May it be known that, by night or by day the enemys sins are forever grave. I am the loyal servant of my lord Culgi. Let this not be the death of me! May my lord know!"

"We are going, we are going, [...] we are going to the house, to the [house] of the lord, to the [city] of Prince Culgi, to the city that has been restored, to where speech and opinions are good, to where lips and hearts are pure, to where feet are firm on the ground. We are going to the shrine Nibru, Dur-an-ki, to [...] brick-built Tutub, to the majestic Abzu, brick-built g, to the E-cumeca with the princely divine powers, in Urim to the house of Suen, to the E-kic-nu-jal of Nanna, to the Agrun-kug, the beloved house of the lady, to the E-hursaj, the house of the king, to the E-namtila of Prince Culgi."