Source: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Artifacts and parenthetical commentary added by editor R. Brown.
1–6 I will fell trees, I will strike down forests.
(Ninhursag, Anu’s most respected daughter, Chief Medical Scientist & mother of the gods)
Let my mother (Ninhursag) know it.
(NInurta, father Enlil’s & aunt Ninhursag’s son & heir, born of the deciding “double seed” law of succession)
I, Ninurta, will fell trees, I will strike down forests.
Let my mother know it.
I will clear them away like an … ax.
Let my mother know it.
I will strike down … walls like a huge ax.
Let my mother now it.
I will make their troops tremble like …
Let my mother know it.
(Ninurta rides his winged beast / storm bird rockets & sky-ships of the gods & landed shem in mountains with pilot)
I will devour them like storm and flood.
Let my mother know it.”
7–13 The warrior, … in furious battle, smashes heads.
(Ningishzidda, mixed-breed earthling, & Ninurta with his 50-headed mace)
The Lord curses the disobedient, rebellious lands:
“I will … battering ram, I will … your venom.
I will destroy (?) your city gate …, and reach your …
I will … shield on (?) your tower, and reduce it to a pile of dust.
I will … your …, like a city cursed by Enlil.
I will … you into ruin mounds, like a city hated by Ninurta.”
Colophon (line 14): Sa-gida.
15–32 O king, given strength by Enlil, conquer the foreign lands!
(Ninurta with his alien high-tech battle net, & captured earthlings, Anzu / bird in his grasp)
Lord Ninurta, given strength by Enlil, conquer the foreign lands!
Lord, first choice of An (Anu), given strength by Enlil, conquer the foreign lands!
Lord Ninurta …
4 lines missing
6 lines fragmentary
(Bau, royal princess daughter to King Anu, & long bearded Ninurta, her royal prince nephew-spouse)
Young woman Nin-Nibru (Bau), lady …
Lord Ninurta, my king … Ig-alim (__Ninurta’s son, my king …
Cul-cagana (__Ninurta’s son, housemaster), my king …
Colophon (line 33): Sa-jara, to be played with the hands (?).
Colophon (line 34): A tigi of Ninurta (?).