Show Clay Poem Translation A poem inscribed on clay tablets about 1750 B B. C. C which tells in lofty language of ot a political congress held about years ago in Erech a city in ancient Sumer has been translated by Dr Samuel Noah Kramer Clark research professor of ot Assyriology and curator of ot the tablet collection of ot the University of ot Pennsylvania museum The assembly assembly as as as- according to Dr Kramers Kramer's translation of ot the inscriptions found on six tablets and fragments con con- convened convened convened while the hero I was king of ot Erech to make a deci deci- decision slon sion on an Issue of ot war war or peace I Surfer corresponds roughly to the sot there half hal of ot modern Iraq i i j t At KJ 4 r i iH t |