Shulgi B
a praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi B)
The longest and most encyclopedic of the two dozen Shulgi hymns, its 385 lines cataloguing his mastery of scribal art, weaponry, hunting, extispicy, music, five languages, running, and law, Shulgi B argues that comprehensive personal accomplishment, not conquest alone, belongs at the very center of royal legitimacy; its best-known boast is not that he corrected his teachers but that 'none of the nobles could write on clay as I could.'
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