(Shara’s House in) Umma – Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

O E-bur-sigsig (House with beautiful bowls)

set up under heaven, mighty banqueting hall, fulfilling (?) the commands,

abundance of the midst of the sea in ……, at whose holy …… there is entreaty and joy.

The faithful man has enlarged E-ma (Magnificent house), the house of Šara

(Shara, Shu-Suen & Inanna’s son, more god than man), for you in plenty.

2 - Inanna (powerful goddess Inanna, Shara’s mother, Goddess of Love & War)

Your house E-ma — whose prince is the princely son of the Mistress

continues (?) in good fortune, an area of abundance and well-being.

The one who arranges the hair at the nape of the neck, with the gaze of a wild cow,

Šara (Shara, Roman god Cupid), who …… good things,

the son who allots the divine powers (alien technologies) to his mother,

has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Umma, and taken his seat upon your dais.

314. 11 lines: the house of Šara in Umma.