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1. (cf. 6.2.5: UM 29-16-519 Seg. B l. 1) Let the favour be repaid to him who repays a favour.
2. (cf. 6.2.5: NBC 8072) May Lumma grant prosperity to him {who speaks well of others} {(1 ms. has instead:) who has good things}.
3-4. (cf. 6.1.16.c1, 6.2.5: UM 29-16-519 Seg. A ll. 7-8) The farmer lifts his gaze to you (i.e.
5-6. (cf. 6.1.15.b1, 6.1.16.c2, 6.2.5: UM 29-16-519 Seg. A ll. 9-10) The herdsman lifts his gaze to you: "May Enlil look upon the city that he cursed."
7-8. (cf. 6.1.15.b2, 6.1.16.c3, 6.2.5: UM 29-16-519 Seg. A ll. 11-12) The potter lifts his gaze to you: "May Enlil look upon the city that he cursed."
9-11. (cf. 6.1.03.149, 6.1.16.c5, 6.1.22: ll. 172-175, 6.1.25.1) The day became cloudy but it did not rain. It rained, but not enough for people to undo their sandals. The Tigris was not surging at its inlet, so water did not fill the arable lands.
12-14. 3 lines fragmentary approx. 5-10 lines missing
1. (cf. 6.1.01.68, 6.1.25.6) You should drive them like pack-asses into a death-stricken city.
2-3. The temple E-babbar, which Me-silim had built, was destroyed by Nanni, whose posterity had been cut off.
4. (cf. 6.1.02.143) If a household has harmed an acquaintance, the matter should be investigated.
5-6. (cf. 6.1.03.92, 4.05.1: ll. 54-55) Enlil's temple is a collecting (?) of wages (?); yet to reach out, to look with greedy eyes and to seize should be abominations there.
7. Both the palace and the nether world require obedience from their inhabitants.
8-10. (cf. 6.1.02.157, 6.1.25.11, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 317) A palace cannot ignore waste land. A barge cannot ignore straw. A freeborn man cannot ignore toil.
11-12. (cf. 6.1.02.153) The palace is an ox; you should catch it by the tail. Utu is lord; you should fix your gaze on him.
13-14. (cf. 6.1.02.158, 6.1.17.b9, 6.1.25.10) The palace: one day a mother giving birth, the next day a mother in mourning.
15. (cf. 6.1.02.156, 6.1.25.8) The palace is a slippery place .......
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18. ...... a river .......
19-20. (cf. 6.1.01.160) Having wives is human. Having children is from the gods.
21-22. (cf. 6.1.01.151, 6.1.28.17) When I married a malicious husband -- when I bore a malicious son.
23-25. (cf. 6.1.01.125, 6.1.22: l. 33, 6.1.23.2) My husband heaps up for me, my child measures out for me; my lover picks the bones from the fish for me.
26. (cf. 6.1.01.126, 6.1.19.c6, 6.1.22: l. 34, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 284) A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the desert.
27. My husband should not bring me firewood; it will not make an inlay (?) for my genitals (idiom: sense unclear) .
28. (cf. 6.1.01.154) A malicious wife living in a house is the worst of all afflictions.
29-30. (cf. 6.1.22: ll. 35-37, 6.2.5: UM 29-15-748 ll. 6-7) A pig was carrying something (?): "Where is my sow?" it said. As it neared its fate, it said: It is my dung-spattered (?) food!
31. As for a daughter-in-law -- what about making a reed mat?
32-33. (cf. 6.1.01.169) As for the fiancé, what has he brought? And as for the father-in-law, what has he sorted out?
34-35. The fiancé brought ...... did not come out. approx. 7 lines missing
1. (cf. 6.1.15.c4) A stranger is leader in a foreign city.
2-4. (cf. 6.1.15.c5) I am one who does not ....... I can ....... I can .......
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12. ...... barley (?) .......
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14-17. (cf. 6.1.26.d14) The nights are fifty, the days are fifty; at its ......, ...... greatly.
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