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1-16
16 lines fragmentary or unclear
17-22The young
maiden ...... ornaments. The young man ...... sword belt. Let my girlfriend
...... to the place of the festival. She rides on a beast, ...... on a beast.
...... on a lion ....... ...... on a great beast .......
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...... gathers ......, ...... on her ears. She blends (?), she blends (?)
........ She blends (?) kohl. She lets down her hair which was combed up. She
bathes and rubs herself with soap. She rubs herself with soap from the white
bowl, she bathes with water from the holy ewer. She anoints herself with sweet
oil from the stone bowl. She dresses in her laundered clothes. She combs up her
hair which was let down. She paints her eyes with kohl. She puts the lapis
lazuli beads on her neck, arranging their button on her neck sinews. She ......
a cylinder seal on the nape of her neck. She covers her body with a queenly
robe.
17-21Durtur ...... the house of her girlfriend. Durtur, walking on the hills, ....... Durtur, circling (?) around in the valleys, ....... Durtur ...... her girlfriend. Durtur
.......
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2 lines fragmentary
...... Lugalbanda. ...... Ninsun. Durtur ...... kohl on her eyes.
2 lines fragmentary
8A balbale to Inana.
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06.ii.1999 : JAB : adapting translation
03.xii.1999 : GC : proofreading
04.xii.1999 : GC : tagging
18.ii.2000 : ER : proofreading SGML
18.ii.2000 : ER : converting to HTML 4.0
7.ix.2001 : ER : header and footer reformatted; substantive content of file not
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