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A drinking song

1. gigakkul-e gigakkul-e
2. gigakkul-e duglam-sa2-ri
3. gigakkul-e nij2 ur5 sag9-sag9-ge
4. duglam-sa2-ri nij2 cag4 hul2-hul2-e
5. dugu-gur-bal nij2 e2-a me-te-bi
6. dugcag4-gub-be2 nij2 kac sig9-sig9-ge
7. dugam-am DU.DU duglam-sa2-ra-ke4
8. gibunij(SUG) u2bur2 giba-an-du8 silaj-ja2-ke4
9. dug sag9 dag-dug-e sa gi4-a
10. cag4 dijir-za hu-mu-ra-ab-huj-e
11. igi gigakkul-am3 igi-me na-nam
12. cag4 gigakkul-am3 cag4-me na-nam
13. aj2 cag4-zu gur4-gur4-ru ni2-bi-a
14. cag4-me-a gur4-gur4-ru ni2-bi-a
15. ur5-me bi2-sag9 cag4-me bi2-hul2
16. ceg12 nam tar-ra a de2-zu
17. silim-ma he2-jal2-e ki us2-sa-zu
18. dnin-ka-si za-da hu-mu-u8-da-an-til3
19. kac jectin hu-mu-ra-an-bal-bal-e
20. kurun2 lal3-e gu3 nun ha-ra-ni-ib-be2
21. gibunij(SUG) u2bur2-a kac ku7-ku7-dam
22. sagi lu2-tur-ra lunga3 bi2-in-gub-en
23. a-nijin2-e nijin-na-ju10-ne
24. gur4-gur4-re-ja2 gur4-gur4-re-ja2-ju10-ne
25. kac naj-e me-e sig10-ga-ju10-ne
26. kurun2 naj-a ul ti-a-ju10-ne
27. cag4 hul2-la ur5 sag9-ga-ju10-ne
28. cag4-ja2 cag4 hul2-la jal2-la-bi
29. ur5 sag9 tug2pala3-a ca-mur10-ra-ju10-ne
30. cag4 dinana ki-bi ba-ab-gi4
31. cag4 ga-ca-an-an-na-ke4 ki-bi ba-ab-gi4
32.     [...] [dnin]-ka-si-kam


Print sources

Civil 1964: composite text, translation, commentary

Electronic sources

Krecher 1996a: composite text, translation

Cuneiform sources

AO 5385 (TCL 15 20)

Ni 4569 iii 24'ff. (ISET 1 60f.)

VAT 6705 (VAS 10 156)


Revision history

21.vii.1999-27.vii.1999: JAB, editor: standardisation
02.xii.1999: GZ, editor: proofreading
05.xii.1999: GC, editor: SGML tagging
22.xii.1999: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
22.xii.1999: ER, editor: web publication
01.vi.2003: GC/JE, editor/technical developer: XML/TEI conversion
30.iii.2005: GC/JE, senior editor/technical developer: lemmatised version published

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