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Proverbs: collection 18

Segment A

approx. 13 lines missing
18.1
14. [...]-/ib?\-ze2-/e\
18.2
15. [...] lum-/lum\-e
16. [X X X]-/ta lugal\-zu ba-an-gu7
18.3
17. [X] /MU RI\ a-cag4 dur2-ru-na ce gu7-gu7-a
18. lum-lum a-na ba-e-/kal?\
18.4
19. da-ra-an-cub a-hur-rum i-bi2-za
20. /gur-da?\ nij2 ud da-ri2-kam
18.5
21. [a]-/hur\-rum KEC2-ra-ab
22. ud sa9-a du8-du8-a-ab
18.6
(cf. 6.1.26.c2)
23. kug kalag-ga la2 ka kalag-ga sam2
18.7
24. /za\-e jic-cub-e ni2 bi2-ib-kal
18.8
(cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 281)
25. [dug3-tuku bar] in-dab5
26. usu-tuku ba-da-an!-kar
27. [ka-tuku] e2-gal-la ba-ni-in-kur9
18.9
28. [...]-a-kam
29. [...]-na-kam
18.10
30. [...] igi-/ni\ a zal-bi
18.11
31. /he2\-em-dirig urudha-zi-in al-su-su
18.12
32. dul-la2 pu2-bi bi2-ib-sig9-sig9
18.13
33. /saj\ ki-tum3 a2 aj2-ja2 ce-ba-e-da-e-/ce?\
18.14
(cf. 6.1.03.88, 6.1.24.7)
34. saj bul-e id2-da bal-/e\
18.15
(cf. 6.1.11.57)
35. si-si-ig a-ga-de3ki-ce3 i3-gi4-[in]
36. a-ga-de3ki-a a-na-am3 mu-e-ni!-ak
37. mac2-ji6 lul-la im-ma-an-na-jar
38. lu2-bur2-ru-bi bi2-in-tuku
39. a-ga-de3ki-/a\ a-/ga-de3\[ki] [X X]-a-gin7
40. [X]-bi X [...] X

Segment B

(unplaced)
18.b1
(= Alster 1997 p. 242 B rev. 1)
1. /BA\ X [...]

Print/Electronic sources

Alster 1997a, pp. 240-242, 438-439: composite text, translation, score transliteration

Cuneiform sources

CBS 8067
CBS 14188
N 4099
3N-T 910d = A 33293

Revision history

21.i.2002: JT, editor: standardisation
26.ix.2002: JAB, editor: proofreading
16.xii.2002: GC, editor: SGML tagging