destruction of Ur in the time of Ibi-Sin, last of the kings of the Ur
dynasty. This calamity left many traces in the temple songs of Sumer, and
the Sumerian prayer books of Nippur contain other lamentations on the fall
of Ur, written perhaps during the Isin period. The writer has already
published a single column tablet which rehearses the same catastrophe,
mentioning Ibi-Sin himself and naming the Elamites as his captors.(247)
OBVERSE IV
1. _an-ni e-ne-em-bi ba-ra-mu-un-gur_
1. Anu may prevent his word.
2. _d.__Mu-ul-lil-e ni_(_248_)_-šág ģe-ám-bi_
2. Enlil may order kindness.
3. ... _šag-mu ba-ra-be-in-šed-di_
3. And may my heart be at peace from sorrow.
4. [...-]_su-ud arad-na sag ki-ba-da-ab-gál-la_
4.
5. [ ]-_nae-ne-em-súr-ragur-da-bi_
5. [ ] the angry word be prevented.
6. [ ] _ba-da-an-dúr-ru-ne-eš-a_
6.
7. _ùr-ģe-im-ma-gid-gid-da ģe-im-ma-lal-lá_
7. The foundations it has annihilated, and reduced to the misery of
silence.
8. _an-ra a-i-ne-mà me-e ģe-im-ma-na-dúg_
8. Unto Anu I will cry my “how long?”
9. _d.__Mu-ul-lil-ra ní-mu šag-ne-du ģe-im-ma-ag_
9. Unto Enlil I myself will pray.
10. _uru-mu nam-ma-gul-lu ģe-im-me-ne-dúg_
10. “My city has been destroyed” will I tell them.
11. _Uri-(ki) nam-ma-gul-lu ģe-im-me-ne-dúg_
11. “Ur has been destroyed” will I tell them.
12. _uku-bi nam-ma-bir(?)-e ģe-im-me-ne-dúg_(_249_)
12. “Its people have been _scattered_” will I tell them.
13. _an-ni e-ne-em-bi ba-ra-mu-un-gur_
13. May Anu prevent his word.
14. _d.__Mu-ul-lil-e ni-šág ģe-ám- bi_
14. May Enlil order kindness.
15. _šag-mu ba-ra-be-in-šed-di_
15. And may my heart be at peace from sorrow.
16. _uru-mu gul-gul-lu-ba-da-bi ģe-im-ma-an-?-eš_
16. My city which has been destroyed may they ...
17. _Uri-(ki) gul-gul-lu-ba-da-bi ģe-im-ma-an-?-eš_
17. Ur which has been destroyed may they ...
18. _uku-bi dìg gi-bil-šu ág-bi ģa-ba-an-ṫar-ri-eš_
18. Of its slain people may they decree a new dispensation.(250)
19. _me-e nig-dúg-mu mu-ne-sum-ma-gim_(_251_)
19. I will offer my meditations unto them.
20. _me-e uru-mu-da ģe-en-bi mu-un-da-lal-eš_
20. I (will say to them): “In my city they have despised the splendor.”
21. _Uri-(ki) mu-durun-da ģe-en-bi mu-(un)-da-lal-e-eš_
21. “In Ur the city of homes they have despised the splendor.”
22. _an-ni [dúg-ga-ni ģur] nu-kúr-ru-dam_
22. Anu whose words in this manner change not.
23. _d.__ Mu-ul-lil-e eṇim-bi è-a-ni ... e-dam_
23. Enlil the going forth of whose word....
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24. _ki-šub-gú 4-kam-ma-ám_
24. It is the fourth song.
25. _uru-ni ba-da-gul-ám me-ni ba-da-kúr-am_
25. Her city has been destroyed, her ordinances have been changed.
26. _giš-gí- gál-bi- im_
26. This is its antiphon.
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27. _d.__ En-lil-li ud-de gù-ba-an-de_
27. Enlil utters the spirit of wrath
28. _uku-e še-ám-šá_
28. and the people wail.
29. _ud ģe-gál-la kalaṃa-da ba-da-an-ḳar_
29. The spirit of wrath prosperity from the Land has destroyed
30. _uku-e še-ám-šá_
30. and the people wail.
31. _ud dug Ki-en-gi-da ba-da-an-ḳar uku-e še-ám-šá_
31. The spirit of wrath peace from Sumer has taken and the people wail.
32. _ud ģul-gál-e á-ba-da-an-ág uku-e še-ám-šá_
32. He has sent the evil spirit of wrath and the people wail.
33. _ḳin-gal-ud-da ud-da-gub-ba šu-na im-ma-an-sĭg_
33. The “Messenger of Wrath,” the “Assisting Spirit” into its hand he
entrusted.(252)
34. _ud kalam-tíl-tíl-e gù-ba-an-de uku-e še-ám-šá_
34. He has uttered the spirit of wrath which exterminates the Land and the
people wail.
35. _d.__En-lil-li __d.__Gi-bil á-taģ-a ki-mu-na-ni-in_-[ ]
35. Enlil _has sent_ Gibil as its helper.
36. _ud-gal an-na-ge gù-ba-an-de uku-e še-ám-šá_
36. The great spirit of Heaven has been uttered and the people wail.
37. _ud-gal-e_(_253_)_ an-ta gù-ni-ib-im-me uku-e še-ám-šá_
37. The mighty spirit on high he commanded forth and the people wail.
38. _ud kalam tíl-tíl-e azag ki_ ...
38. The spirit that annihilates the Land ...
39. _im-ģul-e a-maģ-è-a-gim_ ...
39. The evil storm like a mounting inundation ...
40. _giš-dúr_(_254_)_ uru-ge sag-gaz ni-ag_ ...
40. The shepherd of the city it slew ...
41. _an-na ùr-ba? mu-un-nigin_ ...
41. Of heaven its foundation it ...
42. _ud-da igi-ba-ne mu-un-ne-ne_ ...
42.
43. _bàr-bàr-ri ne-gig-edin-na tùr(?)_ ...
43.
44. _an-ne-bar-ám ne-gùr-gùr_ ...
44.
45. _an-ne é UD-UD è_ ...
45.
46. _kalam-ma lăg-lăg-ga_ ...
46.
(Lines 47-55 mostly illegible.)
Col. V.
(Lines 1-6 mostly illegible.)
7. _Uri-(ki)-ma túg-gim ba-e-gul ... gim ba-e-búr_
7. Ur like a garment thou hast destroyed, like a ... thou hast scattered.
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8. _ki-šub-gú 5-kam-ma-ám_
8. It is the fifth song.
9. _ud ug(?)-ám al-[ ]uku-e še-am-šá_
9. The spirit of wrath like a _lion_ ... and the people lament.
10. _giš- gí- gál -bi- im_
10. This is its antiphon.
11. _ud-ba ud uru-da ba-da-an-gar uru-bi_ ...
11. At that time the spirit of wrath upon the city was wrought and the
city....(255)
12. _a-a __d.__Nannar uru dim-dūl-dūl-da ba-da-an-[ ]uku-e še-ám-šá_
12. Father Nannar upon the city of _master workmen_ ... and the people
wail.
13. _ud-ba ud kalama-ta ba-da-an-kár uku-e še-ám-šá_
13. At that time the spirit of wrath _descended_ upon the Land and the
people wail.
14. _uku-bi šika-kud-da [nu-me-a bar-ba ba-e-si]_
14. Her people without water jars sit without her in desolation
15. _bád-ba gú [?_(_256_)_]-nin [kaskala im-ma-an-gar-gar uku-e še-ám-šá_]
15. Within her ... in the ways are _placed_ and the people wail.
16. _ká-gal-maģ gĭr-gál-la-[ba àd-a im-ma-] an [BAD]_
16. The great city gate and the highways with the dead are _choked up_.
17. _duk?-tun-sìr-gim dū-a-ba [sag-bal-e] ba-ab- gar_
17. Like a leather vessel all of her the usurper cast asunder(?)
18. [ ] _e-sir gĭr-gál-la-ba àd im-ma-an-gar-gar_
18. In her ... streets and roads corpses he _heaped up_(?)
LITURGICAL HYMNS OF THE TAMMUZ CULT. 3656 (MYHRMAN NO. 5)
The obverse of this fine single column tablet contained a hymn in
thirty-eight lines to the departed Tammuz. It represents the people
wailing for the lord of life who now sleeps in the lower world. Thirteen
lines have been completely broken away from the top. The reverse carried a
long liturgical song of the cult of this god in which the mother goddess
is represented wailing for her ravished lover. Songs of the weeping mother
are common enough in these wailings for Tammuz, but all other known
examples of this _motif_ represent the major unmarried type of mother
goddess Innini-Ishtar wandering on earth, crying for her departed son. The
hymn on our tablet reveals in a wholly unexpected manner the close
relation between the mother goddess Gula of Isin and Innini. It was known
that both sprang from a common source, a prehistoric unmarried goddess,
but one had hardly supposed that the liturgists went so far as to
introduce the married goddess of Isin in the rôle of the virgin mother
Innini. The great mother divinity of Isin, although attached in a loose
way to a male consort Ninurta, in that city retained, nevertheless, much
of her ancient unattached character. In the standard liturgies she is
almost invariably the type of Weeping mother, whereas Innini is this type
in the Tammuz liturgies. Since Gula of Isin was the ordinary liturgical
type we find the influence of the ordinary liturgies effective in the
composition of the Tammuz hymn. It explains the extraordinary phenomenon
of the introduction of a long passage (Rev. 3-10) from one of the wailing
liturgies. And the short litany refrain lines 11-20 is obviously an
imitation of numberless similar passages of the ordinary liturgies in
which the goddess wails for various temples; here only for Nippur and
Isin, since the composition was written for the services at Nippur in the
period of the Isin dynasty. In a most gratifying manner our tablet shows
how the lamentations of the mother goddess in the canonical prayer books
express sorrows for certain concrete misfortunes and certain defined
temples and cities and find their general expression in the lamentations
for Tammuz, the representative of all human vicissitudes. This edition has
been made from my own copy. The tablet was first published by MYHRMAN,
PBS. Vol. I No. 5, and by RADAU, BE. 30 No. 2. To these copies I have been
able to make only slight additions.
HYMNS OF THE TAMMUZ CULT
1. _KU_-? [ ]
1.
2. _kalag giš_ [ ]
2. Oh strong one [ ]
3. _me-ri kuš-ù-[zu_(257) ]
3. _Thy_ weary foot [ ]
4. _á-lirum-šu_(_258_)_-[kuš-ù-zu_ ... ]
4. _Thy weary_ arms—breast—hands [ ]
5. _a-zu_(_259_)_-guruš a-zu_ [ ]
5. Oh strong healer, oh ... healer [ ]
6. _kalag __d.__Da-mu-mu_ [ ]
6. Oh strong one, my Damu [ ]
7. _ṭu-mu ù-mu-un mu-zi-da_ [ ]
7. Oh child, lord Gišzida [ ]
8. _a-zu a dam ... ni-kuš-ù-a-zu_
8. Oh healer, how long husband ... wilt thou be weary?
9. _a-zu a ṭu-mu ... ni-kuš-ù-a-zu_
9. Oh healer, how long son ... wilt thou be weary?
10. _i-dé (?) ... ṭu-ru ? [na?] zu-dé_
10. When before ... thou sittest,
11. _kalag da-ga-ám-ma_(_260_)_-ni ... zu-dé_
11. Oh strong one, when _into_ his _assembly_ thou ...
12. _a-rib_(_261_)_ šu-si me-ri ... a-bal-mà na-nam_
12. Alas he whose fingers and feet [_are bound_], my irrigator(262) is he.
13. _šag-zu-šú la-aģ-[la-aģ-]ģu-a-zu_
13. Because of thee she wanders far for thee.
14. _kalag __d.__Da-mu-mu a-bal-mà na-nam_
14. My sturdy Damu, my irrigator is he.
15. _ama-zu mu-lu er-ri nu-kuš-ù_
15. Thy mother she of lamentation rests not.
16. _ama ga-ša-an tin-dib-ba túb-bi-šú nu-durun_
16. The mother, queen who gives life to the afflicted, tarries not to
repose.
17. _ù-šub-ba-za ù-zi-ga-za sìr-ri-šú na-ri-bi_
17. In thy perdition, in thy seizure, in melodious sighing she speaks of
thee.
18. _kalag a-rin-na-za ù(?) a-tar-ra-za sìr-ri-šú na-ri-bi_
18. Oh hero, in thy contumely, in thy removal, in melodious sighing she
speaks of thee.
19. _ama-ugu-mu GAR-LUL-LUL-na-mu sìr-ri-šú nu-uš ma-gub-bi_
19. My child-bearing mother, my lamenter(?) with melodious sighing behold
she stands
20. _kalag idim-[ma me-]en galu-kur-al_
20. Oh sturdy one, prostrate thou art, a man of the land of
wailing(?)(263)
21. _en ... me-en galu-kur-dim_(_264_)
21. Oh lord, ... thou art, a man of the land of lament.
22. _unu-[dagal-mu] kur-idim-ma-mu_
22. In my vast chamber, in my land of misery,
23. _en me-en a-ra-li ki-sag kirud-da-mu_
23. A lord am I. In Aralu, place where I am cast away,
24. _kalag me-en kur-ri-sud-du-šú im-ma-ab-du me-en_
24. A laborer am I. Unto the faraway land I go.
25. _ud-me-e-na_(_265_)_ ni_- ? ?
25. Daily(?) he [_sorrows_?](266)
REVERSE
1. _šă-ab-er-ri_(_267_)_ kuš-ù-a-mu ma-a-a nad-da-[mu]_
1. I weary with heart woe, where shall I rest?
2. _balag-di šă-ab-er-ri kuš-ù-a-mu ma-a-a nad-da-[mu]_
2. Oh sing to the lyre; I weary with heart woe, where shall I rest?
3. _ama uru-sag ga-ša-an tin-dib-ba mèn_
3. Mother of the chief city,(268) queen who gives life to the dead am I.
4. _sag-ṭu-an-na ga-ša-an Ì-si-in-(ki)-na mèn_
4. First born daughter of heaven,(269) queen of Isin am I.
5. _ṭu-mu é-a ga-ša-an-mu_(_270_)_ __d.__Gu-nu-ra_
5. Daughter of the temple, Queen Gunura.
6. _tum-lu-azag ama é-šăb-ba mèn_
6. Holy _tumlu_ mother of Ešabba am I.
7. _d.__En-á-nun_(_271_)_ ama gù-an-ni-si mèn_
7. Enanun mother of lamentation am I.
8. _ga-ša-an nigín-mar-ra ki-azag-ga mèn_
8. Queen of Niginmarra,(272) the holy place, am I.
9. _ga-ša-an áš-te_(_273_)_ ... ga-ša-an La-ra-ak-(ki) mèn_
9. Queen of Ašte,(274) queen of Larak.
10. _ama é-a __d.__Ašnan __d.__Azag-sud mèn_
10. Mother of the temple, Ašnan the divine lustrator(275) am I.
11. _šă-ab-er-ri a-še-ir-ri ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
11. Weeping and sighing where shall I find rest?
12. _er é-kur-ra-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
12. Weeping for Ekur, where shall I repose?
13. _er kenur-ra-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
13. Weeping for Kenur, where shall I repose?
14. _er dù-azag-ga-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
14. Weeping for Duazagga, where shall I repose?
15. _er é-dīm-ma_(_276_)_-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
15. Weeping for the “House of the King,” where shall I repose?
16. _er uru-sag-gà-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
16. Weeping for the chief city, where shall I repose?
17. _er tir-azag-ga_(_277_)_-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
17. Weeping for the sacred forest, where shall I repose?
18. _er Ì-si-in-(ki)-na-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
18. Weeping for Isin, where shall I repose?
19. _er é-gal-maģ-a-ge ma-a kuš-ù-mu_
19. Weeping for Egalmah, where shall I repose?
20. _er La-ra-ak-(ki)-a-ge ma-a kuš-ù-[mu ma-a na]-d-da-bi_
20. Weeping for Larak, where shall I repose, where shall he rest?
21. _šă-ab dam-e-mu ša-ab [tu-mu-]_(_278_)_ mu_
21. The ravished one my husband, the ravished one, my son,
22. [...] _ki-el-la šăb mu-ud-na-mu_
22. [In ... ] the clean place, the ravished one my spouse,
23. _ṭu-mu-tūr ṭu-[mu ... ]_
23. The little son, the ... son [...]
24. _ga-ša-an_ [...]
24.
25. _šă-ab_ [...]
25.
26. _AN-NE_ [...]
26.
27. _sukkal_ [...]
27. (279)
L. E. _a-šab-ba-ni a-ba-bar-ra-ni_
L. E. How long his ravishing? how long his absence?(280)
A LITURGY TO ENLIL, SERIES _E-LUM GUD-SUN_ (ZIMMERN KL. NO. 11)
The history of the text of this long and intricate Enlil liturgy
elucidates in unusual manner the evolution of Sumerian prayer books until
they attained canonical and permanent form. The earliest text of this
liturgy is partially preserved on the _Tablet Virolleaud_ published in the
_Revue d’Assyriologie_, Vol. XVI. The fragment was brought to Europe in
1909 by the assyriologist CHARLES VIROLLEAUD, having been purchased by him
during his excavations in Persia. It is light brown and varies from the
center to the edge by two inches to one inch in thickness. The fragment is
from the upper left corner of a large three(?) column tablet. About half
of the first melody is preserved on the obverse. The reverse preserves the
last two melodies. From their rubrics we learn that the entire series
contained eleven sections. This tablet has the rubric _ki-šub-gú_ after
each strophe. The titular litany(281) occupies as usual the next to the
last place but only the opening lines giving the _motif_ and a few titles
are given. The redactor indicates the remaining titles by a rubric
“(Recite the title) of a god until they are finished.” The rubric is in
Semitic which shows that the redaction was done by Semitic scholars.
The series as it finally issued from the hands of the liturgists in the
Isin period was written upon a huge five(?) column tablet, the lower half
of which has been published by ZIMMERN, _Altsumerische Kultlieder_, No.
11. Each column contained about fifty lines. There are no _giš-gí-gal_ or
antiphons after the melodies, ten of which I have been able to restore. By
borrowing from old songs and other liturgies the redactors have greatly
increased the length of this service. At least ten songs have been lost on
Cols. III, IV of the obverse and I, II of the reverse.
The late Assyrian redaction is mentioned in the catalogue of prayer books
IV Raw. 53 I 13 and in BL. No. 103 Obv. 13. SBH. No. 21, edited in SBP.
112-119, is tablet one of the late Babylonian School(282) and contains the
first four songs, duplicates of the first four on K.L. 11. SBH. No. 25,
edited in SBP. 120-123,(283) carries on the obverse two songs (_e-lum
di-da-ra_ and _me-e ur-ri men_) found on Col. III of K.L. No. 11, Rev., or
the two last melodies before the titular litany. A fragment published by
MEEK in BA. X pt. 1, No. 11, contains the end of _e-lum di-da-ra_ and all
of _me-e ur-ri men_. SBH. 25 and MEEK No. 11 belong to the series _e-lum
di-da-ra_, entered in the Assyrian catalogue, IV Raw. 53_a_ 8, and form
tablet _one_ of that service.
The titular litany of the _e-lum gud-sun_ series is identical (except for
some variants) with the famous titular litany of the mother goddess series
_mu-ten NU-NUNUZ gim-ma_, tablet _five_, edited in SBP. 149-167. Portions
of the titular litany of the Enlil series have been edited in PBS. X
155-167, see pages 163-4. The titular litany of _ní-ma-al gù-de-de_ occurs
at the end of tablet two of that series, SBP. 24-9 = BL. 72-3. Not every
series has a theological litany of this kind, which ordinarily comes
before the _er-šem-ma_, or intercessional song at the end. The song to the
“word,” which occurs in all series, is partially preserved on Obv. III and
begins _a-ma-ru na-nam_. The indispensable song to the weeping mother
comes just before the titular litany. This little nine-line melody _me-e
ur-ri-mèn me-e kàs-mèn_ must have been a national religious song. It was
copied into another Enlil song service as we have seen. The same song
introduces tablet _four_ of an Innini series of which we have only the end
of tablet _three_, K. 2759, in BL. 93 f.
Finally the reader will note that the first song _e-lum gud-sun_ of this
series has been copied into one of the tablets of _ame baranara_, SBH. No.
22 = SBP. 126 f. A fragment of some unknown series, K. 8603 = BL. 14 also
employs this song in the body of its text.
1. _e-lum gud-sun mu-zu kur-kur-šú_(_284_)
1. Exalted one, bull that overwhelms, thy name is on the lands.
2. _ù-mu-un-e_(_285_)_ kur-kur-ra gud-sun_
2. Lord of the lands, bull that overwhelms, thy name, etc.(286)
3. _ù-mu-un dúg-ga-zi-da gud-sun_
3. Lord of the faithful word, bull that overwhelms, etc.
4. _d.__Mu-ul-lil a-a ka-na-ág_(_287_)_-gà ... gud-sun_
4. Enlil, father of the Land, bull that overwhelms, etc.
5. _sib sag-gíg-ga gud-sun_
5. Shepherd of the dark-headed people, bull that overwhelms, etc.
6. _i-dé-duģ ni-te-na gud-sun_
6. Thou of self-created vision, bull that overwhelms, etc.
7. _am GĬR_(_288_)_-na sá-sá gud-sun_
7. Wild bull who directs his hosts, bull that overwhelms, etc.
8. _ù-lul-la ku-ku_(_289_)_ gud-sun mu-zu kur-kur-šú_
8. Thou that sleepest the sleep of perversity, bull that overwhelms, thy
name is on the lands.
9. _mu-zu kur-ra mu-ma-al-la-šú an ní-bi nam-dúb_
9. When thy name is laid upon the lands the heavens tremble of themselves,
10. _ki ní-bi nam-sīg_
10. and the earth quakes of itself.
11. _d.__Mu-ul-lil e-ne-em-zu kur-ra-ám ma-ma-al-la-šú_
11. Oh Enlil, when thy word is laid upon the lands,
12. _dúg-ga-zu kur-ra-ám ma-ma-al-la-šú_
12. When thy command is laid upon the lands,
13. _daģ-a-zu kur-ra-ám ma-ma-al-la-šú_
13. When thy _command_(290) is laid upon the lands,
14. _an ní dúb sīg_(_291_)_ ki ní-bi nam-sīg_
14. The heavens tremble of themselves, the earth of itself quakes,
15. _ama [nu]_(_292_)_-gíg-gi ama nu-bar-ra dumu-ni mi-ni-in-gí-gí_
15. The harlot mother, the hierodule mother slays her son,
16. ... _ga-ša-an uru bar-ra-ra dumu-ni mi-ni-in-gí-gí_
16. ... queen of the city, outside the city slays her son.
17. ... _dumu-ni mi-ni-in-gí-gí_
17. ... slays her son.
18. _e-lum ... e-ne-em-zu-šú ... kur-ri ni-in-gí-gí_
18. Oh exalted ... at thy word ... the foreign land _thou reducest to the
misery of silence_.
19. _d.__Mu-ul-lil mu-lu? A_ ...
19. Enlil lord of ...(293)
20. _kur-ri ni-in-gí-[gí]_
20. the foreign land thou _reducest to the misery of silence_
21. _e-lum za-e e-ne-em-zu an-e um-ma-[dúg]_
21. Oh exalted one, as for thee, thy word in heaven speak
22. _an-e ib-[...]_
22. and heaven shall ...
23. _d.__Mu-ul-lil za-e e-ne-em-zu ki-e um-[ma-dúg]_
23. Enlil, as for thee, thy word on earth speak
24. _ki nu-um-_[ ]
24. and earth shall not....
25. _dim-me-ir a-tú-a_(_294_)_ um-ma-dúg_....
25. God of libation speak [and heaven shall ... and earth shall not....]
26. _d.__am an-ki am uru zí-ba-ge um-ma-dúg_ [....]
26. Divine wild ox of heaven and earth, wild ox of the good city(295)
speak, etc.
27. _ama é-maģ-a_(_296_)_ __d.__[Dam-gal-nun-na-ge]_
27. Mother of the house of the famous one, Damgalnunna,
28. _um-ma-dug_ [....]
28. speak, etc.
29. _d.__Asar-lù-dug-e [dumu uru zí-ba-ge]_
29. Marduk, son of the good city(297)
30. _um-ma-dúg_ [....]
30. speak, etc.
31. _d.__ìd ama uru zí-ba-ge um-[ma dug....]_
31. River goddess, mother of the good city speak, etc.
32. _d.__A-?_(_298_)_-e ga-ša-[an ab-su-ra-ka-di_(_299_)_ um-ma-dug....]_
32. Zarpanit queen of ... speak, etc.
33. _[sukkal-zid mu-dug-ga]-sá-a-ra um-ma_(_300_)
33. Faithful messenger, called by a good name, speak, etc.
34. _[ud-dé du(l)- du(l)-]dúg šu-ám mi-ib-gál_
34. [The spirit] reduces [all things] to tribute.(301)
35. _te-e-ám ama-gan-ra dumu-ni zí-em-mà-na-ad(!)-du_(_302_)
35. How long shall the child-bearing mother reject her son?
36. _te-e-ám ama-gan-ra ga-ša-an urú_(_303_)_ bar-ra-ra dumu-ni
zí-em-mà-na-ad(!)-du_
36. How long shall the child-bearing mother, queen of the city, cast aside
her son?(304)
37. _te-e-ám ama-gan-ra ga-ša-an sun-na-ra_(_305_)_ dumu-ni
zí-em-mà-na-ad-du_
37. How long shall the child-bearing mother, the wild-cow queen, reject
her son?
38. _a urú-a mu-lu im-me-a-ra_(_306_)_ dumu-ni zí-em-mà-na-ad-du_
38. How long in the city shall he of wailing reject his son?
39. _a ki-dagar-ra-ám Nippur-ám ib éš-ga-a-ra_(_307_)
39. How long in the wide land, in Nippur, in the region of the vast abode?
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40. _a-gal-gal šel-su-su mulu ta-zu mu-un-zu_(_308_)
40. Flood that drowns the harvests, who comprehends thy form?
41. _e-lum a-gal-gal šel-su-su mulu ta-zu mu-un-zu_
41. Exalted, flood that drowns the harvests who comprehends thy form?
42. _d.__mu-ul-lil ù-mu-un kur-kur-ra_
42. Enlil lord of the lands, who etc.
OBVERSE II
1. _ù-mu-un dúg-ga-zi-da_(_309_)
1. Lord of the faithful word, who etc.
2. _d.__mu-ul-lil a-a ka-nag-ga_
2. Enlil father of the Land, who etc.
3. _sib sag-gíg-ga_
3. Shepherd of the dark-headed people, who etc.
4. _i-dé-duģ ní-te-na_
4. Thou of self-created vision, who etc.
5. _am erin-na sá-sá_
5. Hero who directs his hosts, who etc.
6. _ù-lul-a dúr-dúr_
6. Thou that sleepest the sleep of perversity, who etc.
7. _šag gi-ū gi-ū šă-ab túg-e túg-e_
7. Oh heart be reconciled, be reconciled, oh heart repose, repose.
8. _šag an-na gi-ū gi-ū_
8. Oh heart of Anu be reconciled, be reconciled.
9. _šag __d.__mu-ul-lil gi-ū gi-ū_
9. Oh heart of Enlil be reconciled, etc.
10. _šag ur-sag-gal gi-ū gi-ū_(_310_)
10. Oh heart of the great hero, be reconciled, etc.
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11. _ní-ma-al-e zid al-ma-al_(_311_)_ [li-]e_(_312_)_ nap-tan-na
aš-ša-ka-nu_
11. Kneaded bread for the feast I set,
12. _ní-ma-al-e ní-ma-al-e_
12. Kneaded bread, kneaded bread,
13. _ní-ma-al-e zid al-ma-al_
13. Kneaded bread for the feast I set,
14. _[kur-gal __d.__en-lil-]da šu-en-ne ba-túg_
14. By the Great Mountain, Enlil, it has been blessed.
15. _[a-a __d.__mu-ul-lil] šu-en-ne ba-túg_
15. By Father Enlil it has been blessed.
16. _[kur-gal __d.__en-lil-]šu-en-ne ba-túg_
16. The Great Mountain Enlil has blessed.
17. _[a-a __d.__mu-ul-lil] šu-en-ne ba-túg_
17. The Father Enlil has blessed.(313)
18. _ù-mu-un am urú-zí-ib-(ki) šu-en-ne-ba-túg_
18. Lord, hero of the sacred city, has shown grace.
19. _ama-é-maģ_(_314_)_-a __d.__dam-gal-nun-na_
19. Mother of the house of the famous one, Damgalnunna, has shown grace.
20. _d.__asar-lù-dug dumu urú zí-ib-(ki)_
20. Asarludug, son of the sacred city, has shown grace.
21. _mu-ud-na-an-ni __d.__apin_(_315_)_-nun-na-an-ki_
21. His wife Zarpanit has shown grace.
22. _d.__ìd ama urú zi-ib-(ki)_
22. River goddess, mother of the sacred city, has shown grace.
23. _d.__a-rĭ-e ga-ša-an ab-su-di_(_316_)
23. Zarpanit queen of ..., etc.
24. _sukkal-zid mu-dug-ga-sá-a šu-ba-e-en_
24. Faithful messenger, called by a good name, has shown grace.
25. _ní-ma-al-e zí-ib ni-ma-al-la-ta_
25. The kneaded bread which has been well made,
26. _zí-ib ni-ma-al-la-ta ní-ma-al-e zí-ib-bi dé-kùr-e_(_317_)
26. Which has been well made, the kneaded bread may he eat graciously,
27. _d.__mu-ul-lil-li zí-ib-bi-kùr zí-ib-bi dé-kùr-e_
27. May Enlil graciously eat; yea graciously eat.
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28. _ki an-dúr-ru-na-šú uku_(_318_)_-e gar-ma-an-zí-en_
28. Where Anu sits may the people hasten.
29. _[__d.__A-nun-na_(_319_)_-]ki-an-dúr-ru-na-šú uku-e gar ma-an-zí-en_
29. [_The Anunnaki._] Where Anu sits let the people hasten.
30. _é-e ám-ba-al ne-sag-maģ_(_320_)_ é-e am-ba-al_
30. To the temple he enters, the mighty priest of sacrifices to the temple
enters.
31. _a-tú-tú ma-mu šu-luģ-ge a-tú-tú ma-mu_
31. A libation he offers, the priest of hand washing a libation offers.