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)

O E-igizu-uru (House, your face is mighty), with plenty coming from within,

your well-stocked chamber is a mountain of abundance.

House, your fragrance is a mound of vines.

Your true minister is a leader in heaven.

House, your princess is prominent among the gods,

 (E-ana, Anu’s temple residence in Uruk)

the true minister of E-ana who holds a holy scepter in her hand.

 (Ninshubur, adorning assistant to Inanna the Goddess of Love & War)

Ninšubur, the true minister of E-ana, has erected a house in your precinct,

O E-akkil (House of lamentation), and taken her seat upon your dais.

8 lines: the house of Ninšubur in Akkil.