The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue)
Segment A
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…… his hand …….
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…… the go-between’s fee …… lion ……
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…… not …… wife ……
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Segment B
Get on with (?) your assigned work!
…… more than a house …… field …….
The dragon doesn’t …… its rival.
In building a house ……
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…… of the strong man.
…… its roar, the lion won’t cease …….
…… follow the merchant.
The palace’s water is coming out …….
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Segment C
…… not …… to the house.
He will not found a city.
…… meadow grass is the milk of a lettuce.
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A reed worker …… the breast of a storm …… are many.
…… butting against …….
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another version:
Segment A
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Because of my silver, because of my gold, because of my money chest,
because of my …… chest, I am finished.
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Segment B
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another Segment A
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Release the ……!
He will not provide the food supply.
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The donkey of Ancan (4-legged animal god), the bear (?) of Marhaci (unidentified?),
the cat of Meluhha (unidentified?), the elephant of the eastern mountains,
bite off Euphrates poplars as if they were leeks.
A pickaxe put in the …… clay is a mongoose in its city.
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Segment B
In a complaint, half a gur from the desert …… seized like a lord …….
He cannot …… in his hand.
He does not listen …….
He scratches on the ground.
A courtesan who …… in the streets …… doesn’t give …… to a fallen man.
Like a wild ass which has put …….
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He who rubbed (?) his nose against a beer vat or a large beer container (?) …….
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another Segment A
Let …… be …….
Let his bread be foul food.
No man should eat it.
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He captured Simurrum but did not destroy its walls.
He built E-ana but then abandoned it.
He did not see mighty kingship.
(naked Inanna)
Thus Nanni (Inanna) was carried off to the nether world despondent.
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Segment B
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…… someone …… the mounds.
Why ……?
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Segment C
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another Segment A
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…… seek out …….
On his returning …….
Like a …… he won’t return to his house.
…… a strong man.
…… he rolled …….
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Segment B
…… cut it …… you will be ill.
…… bought ……. …… dead ……. …… open ……
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another: Segment A
You should not eradicate their place in the universe.
You should not move the oxen from their places!
An ox is walking around (?); a mace is …….
I looked into the water.
My destiny was drifting past.
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Segment B
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…… because of ……. …… because of …… I am finished.
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Segment C
If there is a dispute at the mill, a slave girl reveals (?) what she has stolen.
another: Segment A
…… my …….
Let there be ……. …… my heart.
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Segment B
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…… finger.
You are forever pushing like a millstone torn out of its joint.
another Segment A:
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What is …… your mockery to me?
…… whatever he will do …… to my accounts.
Come on, clown! Just for once, say:
“…… my hips are heavier than 50 mana weight.”
A clown made fun of the city.
They made fun of him and he wept.
another: Segment A
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The vixen quenched her thirst but still her motherly teats were dry.
Each fox is even more …… than its mother.
If the hearing of the fox …….
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Segment B
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another Segment A:
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…… when his …… looks around, who …… child?
…… without …… raise ……. …… sit …… his hands for me.
I will …….
How can I ……?
…… make it strong for you …… make it strong ……“
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another Segment A:
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To spit without covering it up with dust,
to kiss with the tongue at midday without providing shade,
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are abominations to the god …….
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another Segment:
The ubuluj bird …… town square …….
The ubuluj bird …… may it …… my ……
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The ubuluj bird ……
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another:
….. no-one has …….
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…… a modest wife ……. …… he will cause a fight ……
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another:
…… plowing …… not …… a gur.
Let great men stir up the conflict for lesser men to fight out.
The little fellow loves his mother; an older brother …… an older brother.
The man in charge of the offerings (?) …… a proper (?) offering.
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another:
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…… that smells, really smells.
…… smells, cheese of the anus.
……, one born into debt (?).
…… who sleeps …… of the fire.
another:
Prayer has given birth to his life.
Where …… you …….
Where …… you …….
The son of the just man lies hungry.
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another:
You …… a single instruction:
“Let me please your heart, let me …… my strength!”
another:
Thus speaks a widow, a man’s junior wife:
“What can widows become?
They cannot be principal wives!”
another:
Do not be hostile to the weakling; do not cry for the strong one.
To the craftsman his arm …….
another:
(Bau / Gula, patron goddess of Isin)
I prostrate myself for the sake of Gula, my lady, but in my own eyes I don’t have a place to stand.
another:
Don’t cause the oven in a man’s house to smoke.
The smoke will ruin (?) the bread.