296 INTEENATIONAL ARBITRATION IN THE GREEK WORLD. 



immediate and complete : in a small minority the disease was 

 alleviated but not eradicated, but the fact upon which we must insist 

 is this, that the fresh outbreak of the disease could always be met 

 and relieved, at least temporarily, by a fresh application of the 

 remedy. The ill was incurable by any means known to the political 

 science of the day, and it is fairer to recognize the service which was 

 rendered to Greek public Hfe by arbitration than to criticise it 

 because the cure effected was not always instantaneous and final. 



Text Referring to the Stele of Me-Silim.* 

 By T. G. Pinches. 



Enlil, king of the lands, father of the gods, by his faithful (ever- 

 lasting) word, divided the territory for Nin-Girsu and the god 

 of Umma. Me-silim, king of Kis, by the word of his goddess 

 Gu-silim, in her enlightenment set up a stone on the spot. 

 Us, ruler of Umma, acted according to a design too ambitious — he 

 shattered the wrought stone, he entered the plain of Lagas. 



Nin-Girsu, warrior of Enlil, by his righteous word opposed Umma. 

 By the word of Enlil, the great net J overthrew, (and) an earth- 

 mound on the plain, in their territory, was founded {i.e., for the 

 burial of the fallen). E-anna-tum, chief of Lagas, ancestor (in reality 

 he was the uncle, as Thureau-Dangin says) of En-temenna, chief of 

 Lagas, decided the boundary with En-a-kalli, chief of Umma. He 

 made a watercourse to come forth from the river to the edge of the 

 plain ; by that watercourse he inscribed a stele. He restored 

 the stele of Me-silim to its place. He did not occupy the plain of 

 Umma. Upon the platform of Nin-Girsu he built, with massiveness, 

 the shrine of Enlil, the shrine of Nin-hursag, the shrine of Nin- 

 Girsu, (and) the shrine of Babbar (the sun-god). 



(At this point the offerings to the shrines are enumerated.) 



^" Based upon the translation of M. Thureau-Dangin. 

 t In the enlightenment due to her, or the like. 

 :j: The destruction from on high. 



