Text, Top of stele decorated with a libation scene

Top of stele decorated with a libation scene before a seated god. white limestone. End of the third millennium B.C. On the left a figure, whose head is missing, probably a king, pours a libation on an altar from which springs a palm leaf and two bunches of dates. This rite is perpetrated before a seated god, probably the sun-god Shamash, who hands the ruler the stick and the ring, symbols of power. This stele carved in the characteristic style of southern Mesopotamia was found at Susa. It may have been erected there when the city was under the rule of the empire of Ur III or was brought there as spoils of war by an Elamite king. J. de Morgan excavations. Sb 7