[Transcriber’s Note: In the original book, throughout the book, all of the transcriptions and translations were done in two columns. The left column showed the transcription, and the right the English translation; each line had the line number. In this e-book, the transcription and translation of each line will be shown in succeeding lines.] OBVERSE. COL. I (About eighteen lines broken away.) 1. ... _túg ba-ra-pad-da_ 1. 2. _d.__A-nun-na-ge-ne na-ba-an-ri-gi-eš-ám_ 2. The Anunnaki he caused to take their seats.(29) 3. _ub-šu-ukkin-na_(_30_)_ ki di-gal tar-ru_ 3. In the Assembly Hall, place where the great judgments are decided, 4. _eš-bar-e si-di ba-ra-an-zu-uš_(_31_)_-ám_ 4. Decisions to arrange he caused them to know. 5. _dingir-bi-ne ki-dúr ba-ab- gar-ra_(32) 5. These gods he caused to take up there their abode. 6. _šug-láģ-bi im-šub-ba aga-bi im-ri-a_ 6. Their clean sacrificial food he gave, their crowns he clothed upon them. 7. _ki-lugal du-azag_(_33_)_ ḳin-sîg_(_34_)_ unù_(_35_)_-gal-ba_ 7. In the king’s place, the throne room, the _ḳinsig_ of the vast abode, 8. _tin_(_36_)_ làl bal-bal-e mu-šú be-ib-tar-ra_ 8. The libation of wine and honey yearly he decreed. 9. _Nibru-(ki) uru giš-gig-dagal-la-bi-šú_ 9. For Nippur the city whose shadow extends afar 10. _uku-sag-gig-ga ní-im-ši-ib-te-en-na_ 10. The people, the dark headed, he caused to have reverence. 11. _ki-dúr-ba gú-ni a-gim_(_37_)_ ba-ra-an-šub_ 11. But its habitations he cursed ... 12. _ab sīg-gan-dúg-ga-gim e-ne sīg-gan-ba-ra-an-dúg_ 12. Like scattered cows he scattered them. 13. _uru šag-bi er-gíg sȋg- bi_ 13. The city’s interior is filled with weeping, 14. _en-na_(_38_)_ dam_(_39_)_ dingir ga-ša-an-bi li-bi nu-tar-ri_(40) 14. While the consort, its divine queen, is not solicitous for her. 15. _é-gu-la za-pa-ag ib-zu-a-bi_ 15. The great house which knew the cry of multitudes, 16. _é-ri-a-súd-gim galu nu-un-tur-tur_ 16. Like a vast building in ruins men enter not. 17. _Nibru-(ki) uru ki ligir-ligir-gal-gal-e-ne šu-im-ma-an-ḪA_(_41_)_-eš-ám_ 17. In Nippur, the city where great princes were prosperous, 18. _a-na-áš ú-gu i-ni-in-de-eš_(42) 18. Why have they fled? 19. _uku sag-gig gú-sa-ģi-a_(_43_)_ udu-gim be-ib-?_(_44_)_-a_ 19. The people, the dark headed, all of them like sheep.... 20. _e(?)-en-šú KAK-RU_(_45_)_ er a-nir šag PA-ḪI-BAD-a_ 20. How long shall loud crying(?), weeping and wailing _distress_ (?) the heart? 21. _en-šú bar_(_46_)_ be-íb- ... ùl_ 21. How long shall the soul be terrified? 22. _šag nu-ub-ši-túg-e_ 22. And the heart repose not? 23. _su__ùb __su__á-lá mu-un-tuk-a-ri_(47) 23. To the drum and cymbals I sing. 24. ... _gíg-ga a-a na_.... 24. ... sorrowfully(?).... 25. ... _síg ... ne ba-dúr-ru-ne-eš_ 25. ... _brick_ ... they dwell. 26. ... _gar-ra-bi er-šú ba-ab-bi-ne_ 26. ... in tears they speak. 27. ... _šub-ba tūr-ru-ba-ne_ 27. ... are made small.