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(This file includes all manuscripts from Uruk that consist of proverbs. Proverbs duplicated in numbered collections are presented first, according to the number of the collection; the remaining proverbs are presented in decreasing order of manuscript size.)

Proverbs: from Unug

VAT 21604 (+) 21605 (AUWE 23 120-121)

Segment A

1. [... mu]-/un?-na\-de2-e
2. [...] X X
3. [...] X X
4. [...] X

Segment B

1. [...] X X [...]
(cf. 6.1.03.167, 6.1.04.4, 6.1.22: l. 189)
2. [an an-gur3 ki] cu-ni-ce3 an-[la2]
(cf. 6.1.03.93)
3. /d\[en-lil2-le] /cer7\-da gu-la-[ni] /cag4\-[jar]-/ra\-am3
(cf. 6.1.04.5)
4. cul-a-lum-bi al-il2-/il2\
(cf. 6.1.04.8)
5. lu2 ga-cum lu2 /BA\ X X [...] X
6. al-me-a [lu2] du14-de3-ka-[na ba-an-kur9]
(cf. 6.1.04.6)
7. u2-a-/gin7\ [saj]-/gu2\-ni?-/ka\-[ra ...]
(cf. 6.1.04.9)
8. /tum9\ [X X] X [...] X
9. [...] X [... sig10]-/ga\-am3
10. [tum9-sa12-ti]-/um\ tum9 im-cej3-ja2-kam
11. [tum9-mar-tu] /lu2\ <til3> ba-dirig-ga
12. [tum9-sa12-ti-um] tum9 he2-jal2-la
13. [gu5-li] dna-ra-am-dsuen

VAT 21587 (AUWE 23 117)

1. [...] X X NU X [X X X]
2. [X X X] MU DI NA MA X X [(X)]
3. [mu]-/un?\-na-de2 A CEC na-an-/ed2?\
4. [X X] AN car2-ra LU HU NI hul [X X]
5. [X X]-/ni\-in-tu-ud-[X]-ud
6. [X X] /PA HI nin\-dijir-gin7 ki-sikil X X-a-ni
7. [X] RI GAG ed2-da-ni ki-sikil TUR-/ja2?\
8. [...] X ba-ci-in-gi4
9. [X X] X A X dub PAD X GA uj3-e

VAT 21570 (AUWE 23 119)

1. [...] X ZA X [...]
2. [...] X X [...]
3. [...] X X [...]
4. [...] JAR SAR [...]
5. [...] /DU\ X [...]

VAT 21544 (AUWE 23 118)

1. [...] X X X [...]
2. [...] X-e jar-jar MA [...]
3. [...] X RA X
4. [...] SAR X [...]

Print/Electronic sources

Cavigneaux 1996, pp. 61-62, 161-162: composite text, score transliteration, handcopy

Cuneiform sources

VAT 21587
VAT 21544
VAT 21570
VAT 21604
VAT 21605

Revision history

24.v.2002: JT, editor: standardisation
22.xi.2002: JAB, editor: proofreading
16.xii.2002: GC, editor: SGML tagging