36. _a-a-mu lu-lu-mu-ùr ab-ba dé-til_ 37. ... _ṭu-mu-na-da-ab- dúg_ 36. Unto my father, my benefactor, I will say, “May the father live.” 38. _gù-gù gù-si-di ṭu-mu-na-ám-mar_ 38. Words which set aright all things I will say. 39. _urú-me-a ama dumu dé-im-me_ 40. ... _dumu ama dé-im-me_ 39. In my city may the mother hail her son, may the son hail his mother.(180) 41. _nibru-(ki)-a ama dumu-dé-im-me_ 41. In Nippur may the mother hail her son, 42. ... _dumu ama dé-im-me_ 42. may the son hail his mother. 43. _ùz_(_181_)_-e síl-bi ģe-im-ši-ib-še-gi-en_ 43. To ewe and her lamb may he be propitious. 44. _e-ne-em __d.__Mu-ul-lil-lá UZ-dé_(_182_)_ máš-bi_ 45. ... _ģe-en-ši-ib-še-gi-en_ 44. May the word of Enlil be propitious to the she-goat and her kid. 46. _d.__Mu-ul-lil-ra uru-ni še-ib nibru-(ki)_ 46. For Enlil, his city, brick-walled 47. _ki-bi ga-mu-na-ab-gí_ 47. Nippur, unto its place I will restore.” 48. _ní-na-teg ní-na-teg ama-mu ní-na teg_ 48. She offers devotion, she offers devotion, my mother offers devotion. LAMENTATION ON THE PILLAGE OF LAGASH BY THE ELAMITES. 2154 (NO. 6) This neatly written but seriously damaged single column tablet carried when complete about fifty-five lines. In style the liturgical lamentation has a striking resemblance to the lamentation on the invasion of Sumer by the people of Gutium, published in the author’s _Sumerian Liturgical Texts_, 120-124. The same refrain, “How long? oh my destroyed city and my destroyed temple, sadly I wail,” distinguishes both compositions.(183) Other lines are common to both threnodies. The contents are similar to the lamentation on Lagash published in _Cuneiform Texts_ of the British Museum, Vol. XV 22, of which ZIMMERN has published a variant VAT. 617 Rev. II 10-42, in his _Sumerische Kultleider_. A translation of the British Museum text will be found in the author’s _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, p. 284, an edition which can now be improved. 1. _a-a_[...] 1. Father [ 2. _? dingir_[...] 2. ... 3. _a uru-gul-la é-[gul-la-mu gíg-ga-bi im-mi_] 3. How long? oh my destroyed city, my destroyed temple, sadly I wail.(184) 4. _ud-ba enim ud-dam bi_-[...] 4. At that time the word like a storm ... 5. _enim __d.__En-lil-lá_ [...] 5. The word of Enlil ... 6. _d.__En-lil galu nam-tar_ [...] 6. Enlil who the fate of ... _determined_. 7. _d.__En-lil-li nim_-[...] 7. Enlil ... 8. _d.__Mà-mà_(185) _dumugu_ [...] 8. Mama the princely son ... 9. _d.__Nin-mar-(ki)-ra-ge gú_[...] 9. Ninmar ... 10. _azag dāg-zagin __giš__má-gal-gal-la bal-[...]_ 10. The holy one who lapis lazuli in great ships ... 11. _nin nig-ga-šù igi-[...]-ti-la a azag pi-el_ ... 11. The queen ... humiliates ... 12. _nin-e KA.? gim NE-a im-da-ra?_ 12. The queen ... 13. _ki lagaš-(ki) nim-ki šu-ni-a im-ma-ši-in-gí_ 13. The land of Lagash he abandoned unto the hand of Elam.