Hymns, Sumerian; Sumerian language -- Texts; Sumerians -- Religion
8. _lamma-šág-ga sil-gig edin-na_
8. The good genius of the dark ways of the plain.(375)
9. _d.__Nin-sîg-ge __d.__Guškin-banda-ra_
9. Ninsig Guškinbanda,
10. _ù-mu-un nig-nam-ma-ge ḪU_(_376_)_-kur-kur_(_377_)
10. Lord of whatsoever is, the sculptured form.
11. _sal-si_(_378_)_-a __d.__Ba-ú_(_379_)_-šág-ga_
11. The earth woman, beneficent Bau.
12. _ù-mu-un né me en_(_380_)_ ga-ša-an abzu_
12. Lord of might, lord of decrees, priest of the deep.(381)
13. _d.__Ašnan __d.__Azag-sug_(_382_)_ mun-galu_(_383_)_-sal-sal_
13. Ašnan the divine cleanser, the ... loud crying.
14. _[ù-mu-un] sa-a_(_384_)_ ki-sá_(_385_)_ dumu nun-ra_
14. Lord of light, director of the earth, and the daughter of the
prince.(386)
15. _[gidim uru-]ma ur sag-imin_
15. The demon of my city the dog of seven heads.
16. _[__d.__Gi-bil mu- ? ?]-na_(_387_)_ mu-ten ur-sag_
16. Gibil ... warlike man.
17. _[__d.__Ut-ta-ed-dé mu-lu] ki-azag-ga_
17. Uttaedde lord of the holy place.
18. _[umun ma-da sub-be an-na ]_
18. [Lord of the land, light of heaven.](388)
19. [_umun á-zu umun e_(_389_)_-gid-da_ ]
19. [Lord Nergal, him of the seizing hand.]
20. [_ga-ša-an-né-da umun mu-zi-da_]
20. [Allat and Ningišzida](390)
21. [ ] _dū-a_
21. [ ]
22. [ ]_-ga_
22. [ ](391)
23. _[__d.__Ir-ri-eš ur-sag ga-ša]-an-subur_
23. [Irriš, the heroic] lord of the soil.
24. [_dingir ama é-uru-sag-gà gašan tin-dib-ba_]
24. [The divine mother of the temple of the chief city(392) queen who
gives life to the dead.]
25. _[sag-gà an-na gašan] Í-si-in-na_
25. The lofty browed queen of Isin.
26. _[__d.__Pa-bil-sag ù-mu-]un La-ra-ag-ga_
26. Pabil-sag(393) lord of Larak.
27. _[__d.__Gu-nu-ra dim-gal] kalam-ma_
27. Gunura bar of the Land.
28. _[__d.__Da-mu šág-ga ù-]mu-un gir-su-a_
28. The pious Damu lord of the flood.(394)
29. _[__d.__Immer ù-mu-un] ní-dŭ-an-na_
29. Immer lord of terror.(395)
30. [ ] _íd-da-ra_
30. ... the river.(396)
31. _[ù-mu-un ši ka-nag-]gà ši kur-kur-ra_
31. Lord of the souls of Sumer, of the souls of the lands.
32. _[__d.__Sú-ud-da-am du-mu nun-na ama é-]šab-ba_
32. Suddam, daughter of the prince, mother of Ešabba.
About twenty-four lines completed this column and ended the liturgy. The
void is to be completed by part of the titular litany, SBP. 160, 19-164,
38, and by a short intercession similar to the fragmentary intercession at
the end of KL. No. 8. It is possible that the eleventh and last section on
Tablet Virolleaud was retained as the final melody of this later
redaction.
REVERSE OF TABLET VIROLLEAUD (THE TITULAR LITANY)
1. _é-e sub-da sub-da [mu-un-laģ-en-ne-en]_
To the temple with prayer, with prayer let us go.(397)
2. _balag_(_398_)_ é-e dirig sub-da [mu-un-laģ-en-ne-en]_
To the lyre unto the temple which surpasses all let us go.
3. _balag nigin-na-e sub-da __d.__Mu-[ul-lil-ra mu-un]_
To the lyre unto the merciful one with prayer, [unto Enlil,]
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