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 house where lustrous herbs are strewn upon the flowery bed,
(naked Inanna in her bed-chamber, spouse to Dumuzi, & Goddess of Love)
the bed-chamber of holy Inana, where the lady of the plain refreshes herself!
Brick-built E-muš (House which is the precinct) is flowery and holy,
its …… clay established for him who tends the ewes on the high plain.
(Dumuzi with stags)
Your …… house of Arali (House which is the nether world) gives shade (?) to the shepherd.
Your prince, a raging lion on the plain, the šuba jewel of the Mistress whose breast is holy and marvelous,
(Inanna & Dumuzi the Shepherd, son to Ninsun & Enki)
the lord who is holy Inana‘s husband, Dumuzid (Dumuzi), the sovereign of E-muš, has erected a house in your precinct,
O Bad-tibira, and taken his seat upon your dais.
10 lines: the house of Dumuzid in Bad-tibira.