stones who have collaborated with Azag. Finally he returns to Nippur to receive the praise of his father and the gods.

Ninurta assigns various fates to the minerals that have been conquered in his cosmic battle. The kurgarranum-stone is destined to be raw material for funerary figurines, "May you be made beautiful at [the festival] of ghosts, [...for] nine [days] may the young men in a semi-circle make for you a doorway," whereas the unfortunate sagara-stone is doomed to be discarded, "You will be thrown