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1-3. 2 lines fragmentary ...... his hand .......
4-11. 2 lines fragmentary ...... the go-between's fee ...... lion ...... 1 line fragmentary ...... not ...... wife ...... 1 line fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing
1-2. Get on with (?) your assigned work!
3-9. ...... more than a house ...... field ....... The dragon doesn't ...... its rival. In building a house ...... 1 line fragmentary ...... of the strong man. ...... its roar, the lion won't cease .......
10-13. 3 lines fragmentary ...... follow the merchant.
14-17. The palace's water is coming out ....... 3 lines fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing
1-2. ...... not ...... to the house. He will not found a city.
3-4. ...... meadow grass is the milk of a lettuce. 1 line fragmentary
5-6. A reed worker ...... the breast of a storm ...... are many.
7. ...... butting against .......
8-13. 6 lines fragmentary
1-2. 2 lines fragmentary
3-7. 5 lines fragmentary
8-13. (cf. Ni 9824 Seg. B ll. 3-5, 6.1.09.d4, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 315 ll. 10-13) 1 line fragmentary Because of my silver, because of my gold, because of my money chest, because of my ...... chest, I am finished.
14-15. ...... good ...... eat ....... unknown no. of lines missing
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-3. 2 lines fragmentary
4-9. 6 lines fragmentary
1-3. 1 line unclear
Release the ......! He will not provide the food supply. 1 line unclear
4-8. The donkey of Ancan, the bear (?) of Marhaci, the cat of Meluhha, the elephant of the eastern mountains, bite off Euphrates poplars as if they were leeks.
9. A pickaxe put in the ...... clay is a mongoose in its city. unknown no. of lines missing
1-2. In a complaint, half a gur from the desert ...... seized like a lord .......
3-5. He cannot ...... in his hand. He does not listen ....... He scratches on the ground.
6-7. A courtesan who ...... in the streets ...... doesn't give ...... to a fallen man.
8-9. Like a wild ass which has put ....... 1 line fragmentary
10-11. He who rubbed (?) his nose against a beer vat or a large beer container (?) .......
12-13. 2 lines fragmentary
1-4. (cf. 6.1.01.40, 6.1.19.f4) Let ...... be ....... Let his bread be foul food. No man should eat it.
5. 1 line fragmentary
6-8. 3 lines fragmentary
9-12. (cf. 6.1.03.31, 6.1.09.b1, 6.1.11.18, 6.1.15.b8, 6.1.25.4) He captured Simurrum but did not destroy its walls. He built E-ana but then abandoned it. He did not see mighty kingship. Thus Nanni was carried off to the nether world despondent. unknown no. of lines missing
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-3. 2 lines fragmentary
4-5. 2 lines fragmentary
6. ...... someone ...... the mounds.
7. Why ......? unknown no. of lines missing
1-3. 3 lines fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-3. 2 lines fragmentary
4. 1 line fragmentary
5-6. 2 lines fragmentary
7-8. (cf. 6.1.13.27) ...... accept ...... one-third .......
9. 1 line fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing
1. ...... no-one .......
2. (cf. 6.1.01.95) ...... you are not a man.
3. 1 line fragmentary
4-5. 2 lines fragmentary
6. 1 line fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3. ...... seek out .......
4. On his returning .......
5. Like a ...... he won't return to his house.
6. ...... a strong man.
7. ...... he rolled ....... unknown no. of lines missing
1-2. ...... cut it ...... you will be ill.
3-4. ...... bought ....... ...... dead .......
5-6. ...... open ...... 1 line fragmentary
1-2. (cf. 6.1.02.1, 6.1.07.1, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 356 ll. 3-8) You should not eradicate their place in the universe. You should not move the oxen from their places!
3. (cf. 6.1.02.83) An ox is walking around (?); a mace is .......
4. (cf. 6.1.02.4) I looked into the water. My destiny was drifting past.
5. 1 line fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing
1-2. 2 lines fragmentary
3-5. (cf. N 4248 Seg. A ll. 8-13, 6.1.09.d4, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 315 ll. 10-13) ...... because of ....... ...... because of ...... I am finished. unknown no. of lines missing
1-3. (cf. 6.1.03.42, 6.1.22: ll. 278-279, 6.2.5: YBC 8713 l. 7) If there is a dispute at the mill, a slave girl reveals (?) what she has stolen.
1-3. ...... my ....... Let there be ....... ...... my heart.
4. 1 line fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing
1-4. 4 lines fragmentary
5-7. (cf. 6.1.03.45, 6.1.07.43) ...... finger. You are forever pushing like a millstone torn out of its joint.
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-4. What is ...... your mockery to me? ...... whatever he will do ...... to my accounts.
5-6. Come on, clown! Just for once, say: "...... my hips are heavier than 50 mana weight."
8-10. A clown made fun of the city. They made fun of him and he wept.
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-5. (cf. 6.1.02.59-60) The vixen quenched her thirst but still her motherly teats were dry. Each fox is even more ...... than its mother.
6. (cf. 6.1.02.61, 6.2.5: P 374) If the hearing of the fox ....... unknown no. of lines missing
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3-4. 2 lines fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-5. ...... when his ...... looks around, who ...... child? ...... without ...... raise .......
6-10. ...... sit ...... his hands for me. I will ....... How can I ......? ...... make it strong for you ...... make it strong ...... 1 line fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-5. (cf. 6.1.03.8) To spit without covering it up with dust, to kiss with the tongue at midday without providing shade, 1 line unclear
are abominations to the god .......
6-9. 4 lines fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3. 1 line fragmentary
4-6. (cf. 6.1.02.6) My fate is her voice: my mother can change it. 2 lines fragmentary
7. 1 line fragmentary
8. 1 line fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing
1. 1 line fragmentary
1-2. (cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 247) The ubuluj bird ...... town square .......
3-6. The ubuluj bird ...... may it ...... my ...... 2 lines fragmentary
7-9. The ubuluj bird ...... 2 lines fragmentary
1-2. 1 line fragmentary ...... the workers ...... young men .......
3. 1 line fragmentary
4. 1 line fragmentary
5. 1 line fragmentary
6. 1 line fragmentary
7. ...... you .......
8. ...... yours.
1. ...... no-one has .......
2. 1 line fragmentary
3. ...... a modest wife .......
4-5. ...... he will cause a fight ...... 1 line fragmentary
6-7. 2 lines fragmentary
1. ...... ploughing ...... not ...... a gur.
2-3. Let great men stir up the conflict for lesser men to fight out.
4-6. The little fellow loves his mother; an older brother ...... an older brother. The man in charge of the offerings (?) ...... a proper (?) offering.
7. 1 line fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-7. 6 lines fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3. ...... that smells, really smells.
4. ...... smells, cheese of the anus.
5. ......, one born into debt (?).
6. ...... who sleeps ...... of the fire.
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3-4. ...... my god's heart ...... 1 line fragmentary
5. 1 line fragmentary
1. Prayer has given birth to his life.
2-4. Where ...... you ....... Where ...... you ....... The son of the just man lies hungry.
5. 1 line fragmentary
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-4. 2 lines fragmentary ...... died.
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3-4. 1 line fragmentary plotted .......
1. 1 line fragmentary
2. 1 line fragmentary
3-4. 2 lines fragmentary
1-3. You ...... a single instruction: "Let me please your heart, let me ...... my strength!"
1-3. Thus speaks a widow, a man's junior wife: "What can widows become? They cannot be principal wives!"
1. 1 line fragmentary
2-3. 1 line unclear
1 line fragmentary
1-3. Do not be hostile to the weakling; do not cry for the strong one. To the craftsman his arm .......
1-2. The ox has broken its sinews and is lying in its yoke.
1-2. 1 line fragmentary ...... drinking .......
1-2. I prostrate myself for the sake of Gula, my lady, but in my own eyes I don't have a place to stand.
1-2. Don't cause the oven in a man's house to smoke. The smoke will ruin (?) the bread.
1-2. Come, you are our son, even from when you did not exist!
1-2. It went up to heaven, it rose to heaven.
1-2. The fox gnashed its teeth: "Don't swear an oath!"
1-2. The ditches of the garden should not flow with water, or there will be vermin.
1. Is my ox to provide milk for you?
1. Like a man who eats sesame oil, his anus farts.
1. Talking endlessly is what humankind has most on its mind.
1. 1 line fragmentary
1. He wipes his bread on the pig.
1. May the king live in his favourite city.
1. Your role in life is unknown.
1. Your ox with its large horns will always return to you.