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...... squatting in the dust ....... ...... of Inana
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...... of her garment of ladyship. ...... with blood (?). ...... her submission
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...... insulted ......, cursed my temple. ...... I despised him. ...... cursed
my city. ...... devastated my ....... ...... sullied my garments.
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1-6...... rites
....... Thus ...... my lungs and heart. As if during the night watch ......
like excrement. ...... my countenance like smoke. ...... my body like
.......
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7...... kirugu.
8...... lady .......
9Its jicgijal.
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...... whose hands were fettered, ...... who had been treated unjustly. The son
of Enlil, the son of ....... ...... Sumer ....... I, Enlil, ....... From now on
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1-13He made the people follow the proper path, and ousted (?) the enemy from Sumer. He removed the wicked tongues, and made justice shine forth like copper. That fathers should be feared and mothers respected, that sons should pay heed to the words of their fathers, and that mercy, compassion and pity should be shown, that one should provide even one's paternal grandparents with food and drink -- all this he established in Sumer and Akkad. Then she made Icme-Dagan, the son of Enlil, the en priest of Unug, into their guardian -- this is what Inana, the lady of heaven and earth, did; and the great An declared his consent. Enlil .......
14...... kirugu.
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22.ix.2000 : GZ : translation
28.ix.2000 : JAB : proofreading
04.x.2000 : GC : tagging
26.x.2000 : ER : proofreading SGML
26.x.2000 : ER : converting to HTML 4.0
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