SEGMENT A
(beginning of 1st kirugu)
The ...... which had developed -- its wiping clean (?) was to be
accomplished (?). The ...... of heaven and earth put their
divine powers ...... to sleep (?).
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...... mortal man multiplied to become as numerous as the gods.
When together ...... had achieved a momentous decision, the
...... of the gods ....... Enki and Ninki determined the
consensus -- deemed worthless. Enul and Ninul assigned the fate,
.......
When together An and Enlil had created it, that one resembled
....... When Ninlil had given it features, that one was fit for
....... When together Aruru, Suen and Enki had fashioned its
limbs, that one turned pitch black, as at night, halfway through
the watch, ....... All the great gods paled at its immensity
and...... was brought about. Like a great wild bull which
bellows mightily, that one filled the world with its roar.
As its gigantic horns reached up to heaven, who trembled in his
very core? As it was piled up over the mountains like a
battle-net, who turned away? Who caused wailing and lamenting in
those streets and ......? Unug, like a loyal citizen in terror,
set up an alarm (and exclaimed) "Rise up!" Why did its hand
seize Unug? Why did the benevolent eye look away? Who brought
about such worry and lamenting and ......?
That one drew nearer. That one settled upon the ground. Why
would he withdraw? Who distorted Unug's good sense and deranged
its good counsel? Who smashed its good udug deity? Who struck
its good lama deity too? Who desecrated the fearsome radiance
which crowned it? Who brought about mob panic in Unug? Who
...... sickness too? Along with the city, the foreign lands
......, who ...... in the temple of Unug? That one ........
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SEGMENT B
(continuation of 1st kirugu)
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Who made ......? Why was ...... expanded? Who made the
black-headed people become so numerous? Who overthrew ......?
...... was destroyed -- who restored ......? Who confronted
......? That one crushed ....... That one .......
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SEGMENT C
(probable beginning of 2nd kirugu)
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...... and Utu, who in human form renders judgment at the law
court of heaven, set and did not rise again. ...... bore a heavy
burden of sin. ...... the altered verdicts of the lord Nunamnir.
...... who can smite ......? ...... and they approach (?).
...... he brings ...... forth. ...... of Enlil ....... He ......
and puts an end to .......
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SEGMENT D
(continuation of 2nd kirugu)
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...... each and every one ....... ...... its ways were .......
...... its destruction and demolition, ....... The ...... of the
gods ...... attention. ......, who neglected ......, ...... the
city watched as the evil ghost approached. ...... breathed
painfully, he wept bitterly. ...... there was no nodding of the
head.
He consoled himself with tears and laments -- the city trembled.
A defiled hand smote him and flattened his skull -- the city
collapsed. The fearsome radiance overwhelmed each and every
observer (?). The capital city, canal inspector for all the
lands, became like one who spreads havoc. The faithful cowherds
themselves overturned every single cattlepen. The chief
shepherds themselves burned (?) every sheepfold. They built them
up like grain heaps, they spread them out like grain piles, they
themselves flattened them. ...... they drenched the fields with
water, they turned the city into a swamp. They did all that.
Like reeds in a wasteland, life could not be revived. They
brought ruination. Evil things menaced (?) the city. A hush
settled over the awed hearts of its people like a cloak.
Its good udug deities went away, its lama deities ran off. Its
lama deity (said) "Hide in the open country" and they took
foreign paths. The city's patron god turned against it and its
shepherd abandoned it. Its guardian spirit, though not an enemy,
was exiled (?) to a foreign place. Thus all its most important
gods evacuated Unug, they kept away from it. They hid out in the
hills and wandered (?) about in the haunted plains. In the city
built upon peace, food and drink were overturned like a saman
vessel. In the pasture lands a tumultuous noise arose, the asses
and sheep were driven away. Elderly people and babies, taking
their rest, ...... in front ....... They saw ...... and
slaughtered (?) .......
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SEGMENT E
(continuation of 2nd kirugu)
He ...... and opened his clenched fist. He ...... and reached
out his hand. The ...... of Sumer, the city whose king crossed
over to an enemy land, to ....... -- he smote it with the might
of his weapon. He ...... and turned the place into dust. He
...... and piled the people up in heaps. ...... when will its
charms be restored?
2nd kirugu.
The ...... of heaven ...... and the people ...... to the limits
of heaven.
Its jicgijal.
He ......, stretched forth his hand and induced terror in the
land. Enlil struck out with great ferocity. He announced: "A
devastating deluge shall be invoked. At its front war shall be a
...... axe, at its rear it shall be a ....... Its scales shall
be a harrow, its back shall be flames. Its countenance shall be
a malevolent storm that enshrouds heaven and earth. The glint of
its eyes shall be lightning that flashes far like the Anzud
bird. Its mouth shall be grotesque -- a blaze that extends as
far as the nether world. Its tongue shall be an inferno, raining
embers, that sunders the Land. Its arms shall be the majestic
Anzud bird that nothing can escape when it spreads wide its
talons.
"Its ribs shall be crowbars that let light pass inside like the
sun's rays. Knotted at both its hips shall be city-destroying
slingstones. Its great haunches shall be dripping knives,
covered with gore, that make blood flow. Its muscles shall be
saws that slash, its feet those of an eagle. It shall make the
Tigris and Euphrates quaver, it shall make the mountains rumble.
At its reverberation the hills shall be uprooted, the people
shall be pitched about like sheaves, Sumer and Akkad shall
shiver, they shall be flooded like a harvest crop. The foolish
shall rejoice, they shall exclaim: "Let it come -- we shall be
seeing war and battle in the city, how the sacred precinct (?)
is destroyed, how the walls are battered down, how the city's
peace is disrupted, how among the loyal families honest men are
transformed into traitors."
"But the sensible shall beat their breasts and droop (?) their
heads. At midnight they shall toss about tearfully and suffer
insomnia. In bed, under the covers, they shall be unable to
sleep soundly, they shall wander about the city. They shall
wring their hands, their courage shall run out: "May our allies
serving in times of war mobilise their forces for peace. May the
word of Enlil be sent back, may it turn tail. May the venom of
Nunamnir's anger become exhausted. May those vicious men who
have seized the E-kur be punished. May those who have set their
sight upon Nibru be swept away."
3rd kirugu.
My heart is filled with sorrow, I am tear-stricken.
Its jicgijal.
Oh, Sumer! Alas -- your spirit! Alas -- your structure! Alas --
your people! The word of An, having been assigned its place, has
destroyed the sacred precinct (?). The pronouncement of Enlil,
having been set in motion, ....... The devastating deluge
....... The great and fierce ......, the lord Nergal .......
...... like Gibil, Nergal .......
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War ...... enemy lands ...... echoed. Like arrows in a quiver
....... Evildoers in Sumer ....... Gutium, the enemy, overturned
....... Sumer, caught in a trap, ....... Its people were thrown
into turmoil ....... The mighty heroes of Sumer ....... ......
the heart of a hurricane ....... They advanced like the front
rank of troops, ....... Like ...... they were crushed, every one
of them ....... Their war veterans gave up, their brains were
muddled. The troop leaders, the most outstanding of the men,
were viciously hewn down. Gutium, the enemy, ...... weapons
....... Not looking at each other ...... Like a swelling flood,
like ......, Subir poured into Sumer.
They ...... like stampeding goats, they tore apart the corpses
of the population. They mutilated Sumer and Akkad, they
pulverised it as with a pestle. They destroyed its settlements
and habitations, they razed them to ruin mounds. The best of
Sumer they scattered like dust, they heaped up ....... They
massacred its populace, they finished off young and old alike.
They destroyed the city of the Anuna gods, they set it aflame.
They put out both Unug's eyes, they uprooted its young shoots.
They wandered all through the libation places of the Anuna gods.
And even Kulaba, which is the primeval city, they turned into a
place of murder.
4th kirugu.
Alas -- Sumer! Alas -- its people!
Its jicgijal.
Unug! They seized your wharf and your borders and ....... At
Unug shouts rang out, screams reverberated, its captured men
....... The noise reached to the south. The south was destroyed
and ....... The impact forced its way to the uplands. The
uplands were struck and ....... To the right and left no people
moved about, no habitations were built. There was no ...... and
the mobilisation of troops did not ....... ...... rose up to
heaven. Heaven perished and its strength did not ....... ......
upon the earth. The earth was scattered, and it did not .......
All the settlements were dispersed -- Unug stood all alone. It
was a bull, it was a champion, it was immense with pride, but it
...... to the weapons. All night and even until midday battle
was waged, and afterwards it did not .......
Battering rams and shields were set up, they rent its walls.
They breached its buttresses, they hewed the city with axes.
They set fire to its stations, they ...... the city's dwellings.
They destroyed it, they demolished it. Unug, the good place, was
...... with dust. Like a great wild bull wounded with an arrow,
....... Like a wild cow pierced with a spear, ....... The mighty
one rushed with his weapons and ...... implements of war. Subir,
rising up like a swelling floodwave, ....... They trampled (?)
through the streets and ....... They let the blood of the people
flow like that of a sacrificial cow, they tore out everthing
that had been built.
The citizens of Unug ....... They...... and threw down .......
They ...... and put an end to ....... They seized ....... They
struck ....... They destroyed ....... They ...... They
demolished ....... They set up ....... They heaped up .......
They put an end to ...... and did not leave behind .......
...... Subir entered ......
5th kirugu.
...... cried out "...... has been created" and he smeared dust
......
Its jicgijal.
...... reached ......
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SEGMENT F
(probable
beginning of another kirugu)
The enemy land ....... Zabalam ....... In Urim, the E-kic-nu-jal
....... Cattllepen and sheepfold ......, evil ....... The land
of Subir .......
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SEGMENT G
(part
of 11th kirugu)
All the great gods ....... The Anuna gods .......
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Sovereigns .......
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SEGMENT H
(beginning of 12th kirugu)
Lady Inana whose greatness is vaster than the mountains,
hovering like An, vested with grandeur like Enlil, like her
father, perfect by night and in the heat of the day, like Utu,
surpassing in vigour, singularly exalted in all the four regions
-- let Icme- Dagan take pleasure in relaxing in your temple, let
him murmer to you in your temple, let him raise his head to you
in your E-ana.
Let Icme- Dagan serve you as your steward. Let him prepare great
bulls for you. Let him dedicate great offerings to you. Let him
make the beer, fat and oil plentiful for you. Let him make syrup
and wine flow for you as from stone jars. Let Icme- Dagan, son
of Enlil on the king's pedestal, bow in homage to you. May he
make the ub and ala drums resound grandly for you. May the tigi
sound sweetly for you, and may the zamzam play for you. May they
play ...... on the tigi for you, expressing your prayers and
supplications before you.
In bringing forth ......, all that there are, at your E-jipar in
Unug, as a humble man who has grasped your feet, as a pious one
who has experienced your exaltedness, he has brought a lament as
offering to you and will ....... As for everything that happened
to Sumer and Akkad, which he has witnessed in Unug, the
aggrieved place, may the best singers perform songs there.
If the Anuna gods emerge tearfully, let them promise to us that
as it was when heaven and earth came about, nothing of that time
shall be changed. If An looks kindly upon that man and at the
well-built city, the place of determining fate, proclaim "Man
and city! Life and well-being!" for him. Let praises ring out.
Let him be made surpassing above all, to his right or left.
Tireless lama deity, take hold of his head, pronounce his fate
in charitable words -- by the command of An and Enlil it will
remain unaltered for a long time.
12th kirugu.