Source: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Artifacts and parenthetical commentary added by editor R. Brown.
Segment A
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… his hand …
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… the go-between’s fee … lion …
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… not … wife …
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Segment B
Get on with (?) your assigned work!
… more than a house … field …
The dragon doesn’t … its rival.
In building a house …
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… of the strong man.
… its roar, the lion won’t cease …
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… follow the merchant.
The palace’s water is coming out …
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Segment C
… not … to the house.
He will not found a city.
… meadow grass is the milk of a lettuce.
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A reed worker … the breast of a storm … are many.
… butting against …
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another version:
Segment A
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Because of my silver, because of my gold, because of my money chest,
because of my … chest, I am finished.
… good … eat …
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Segment B
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another Segment A
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Release the …!
He will not provide the food supply.
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The donkey of Ancan (4-legged animal god), the bear (?) of Marhaci (unidentified?),
the cat of Meluhha (unidentified?), the elephant of the eastern mountains,
bite off Euphrates poplars as if they were leeks.
A pickaxe put in the … clay is a mongoose in its city.
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Segment B
In a complaint, half a gur from the desert … seized like a lord …
He cannot … in his hand.
He does not listen …
He scratches on the ground.
A courtesan who … in the streets … doesn’t give … to a fallen man.
Like a wild ass which has put …
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He who rubbed (?) his nose against a beer vat or a large beer container (?) …
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another Segment A
Let … be …
Let his bread be foul food.
No man should eat it.
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He captured Simurrum but did not destroy its walls.
He built E-ana but then abandoned it.
He did not see mighty kingship.
(naked Inanna)
Thus Nanni (Inanna) was carried off to the nether world despondent.
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Segment B
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… someone … the mounds.
Why …?
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Segment C
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another Segment A
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… seek out …
On his returning …
Like a … he won’t return to his house.
… a strong man.
… he rolled …
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Segment B
… cut it … you will be ill.
… bought … … dead … … open …
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another: Segment A
You should not eradicate their place in the universe.
You should not move the oxen from their places!
An ox is walking around (?); a mace is …
I looked into the water.
My destiny was drifting past.
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Segment B
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… because of … … because of … I am finished.
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Segment C
If there is a dispute at the mill, a slave girl reveals (?) what she has stolen.
another: Segment A
… my …
Let there be … … my heart.
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Segment B
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… finger.
You are forever pushing like a millstone torn out of its joint.
another Segment A:
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What is … your mockery to me?
… whatever he will do … to my accounts.
Come on, clown! Just for once, say:
”… my hips are heavier than 50 mana weight.”
A clown made fun of the city.
They made fun of him and he wept.
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The vixen quenched her thirst but still her motherly teats were dry.
Each fox is even more … than its mother.
If the hearing of the fox …
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Segment B
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another Segment A:
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… when his … looks around, who … child?
… without … raise … … sit … his hands for me.
I will …
How can I …?
… make it strong for you … make it strong …“
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another Segment A:
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To spit without covering it up with dust,
to kiss with the tongue at midday without providing shade,
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are abominations to the god …
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another Segment:
The ubuluj bird … town square …
The ubuluj bird … may it … my …
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The ubuluj bird …
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another:
… no-one has …
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… a modest wife … … he will cause a fight …
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another:
… plowing … not … a gur.
Let great men stir up the conflict for lesser men to fight out.
The little fellow loves his mother; an older brother … an older brother.
The man in charge of the offerings (?) … a proper (?) offering.
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… that smells, really smells.
… smells, cheese of the anus.
…, one born into debt (?).
… who sleeps … of the fire.
another:
Prayer has given birth to his life.
Where … you …
Where … you …
The son of the just man lies hungry.
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another:
You … a single instruction:
“Let me please your heart, let me … my strength!”
another:
Thus speaks a widow, a man’s junior wife:
“What can widows become?
They cannot be principal wives!”
another:
Do not be hostile to the weakling; do not cry for the strong one.
To the craftsman his arm …
another:
(Bau / Gula, patron goddess of Isin)
I prostrate myself for the sake of Gula, my lady, but in my own eyes I don’t have a place to stand.
another:
Don’t cause the oven in a man’s house to smoke.
The smoke will ruin (?) the bread.