Ningirim’s (House in Murum) – Temple Hymn

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.

(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 city, founded upon a dais in the abzu, established for the rites of icib priests,

house where incantations of heaven and earth are recited,

4 lines fragmentary

…… lustration water in the holy heaven and on the pure earth.

Enki promised waters for Dilmun  (Enki’s daughter blesses the holy life-giving waters)

Ningirim, the lady of the shining lustration water, has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Murum, and taken her seat upon your dais.

19 lines: the house of Ningirim in Murum.