68. Bread is the boat, water is the punt-pole.

69-70. Give me my tools and I will launch my boat.

71-73. Let the poor man die, let him not live. When he finds bread, he finds no salt. When he finds salt, he finds no bread. When he finds meat, he finds no condiments. When he finds condiments, he finds no meat. {(2 mss. add:) When he finds oil, he finds no jar. When he finds a jar, he finds no oil.}

74-75. When he walks on the streets no one greets him. And when he comes home to his wife, "Bad Name" is what he is called.

76. (cf. 6.1.25.5) The lives of the poor do not survive their deaths.

77-78. (cf. 6.1.19.f5) For morsels of bread and fine onions, the food of the school (?).

79-80. For morsels of bread and fine onions, ...... 1 line fragmentary

81. 1 line fragmentary

82. 1 line fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing



1-5. 5 lines fragmentary

6-7. 2 lines fragmentary

8-9. 2 lines fragmentary

10-11. 2 lines fragmentary

1.65

12. (cf. 6.1.02.118, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 221) In the city where there are no dogs, the fox is boss.

1.66

13. (cf. 6.1.02.119, 6.2.5: UIOM 1999) In the city of the lame, a cripple is the courier.

1.67

14-15. The city's fate cannot be determined; its book-keeper is a merchant.

1.68

16. (cf. 6.1.14.15, 6.1.25.6) You should drive them like pack-asses into a death-stricken city.

1.69

17-18. When you are expelled from a city, that city and its king are carried off.

1.70

19. (cf. 6.1.07.121) The songs of a city are its diviners.

1.71

20. 1 line fragmentary

1.72

21-23. When I enter a sleeping city, the city will be filled with blood. When I board a deep-draught boat, it will go aground.

1.73

24. The merchant left the city and the market broke up.

1.74

25. Things may be traded in the city but it is the fisherman who brings in the food supply.

1.75

26-28. The name of the city is Idibi. Its king's name is Didibi. Its queen's name is No-good-at-all.

1.76

29. (cf. 6.1.07.12) Like a clod thrown into the water, may it be destroyed as it disintegrates.

1.77

30. Beer is a bull. The mouth is its threshold.

1.78

31. He hurled his insult. He laid his curse.

1.79

32-33. (cf. 6.1.26.a13) To a curse that is uttered, a curse is not reciprocated. {A curse which is reciprocated will be retaliated against with yet another curse.} {(1 ms. has instead:) The curse with which I would respond would cause another curse to be uttered.}

1.80

34-35. (cf. 6.1.26.c11) It is an insult resulting from an insult. It is a curse resulting from a curse. It is the constant renewal of destiny.

1.81

36. (cf. 6.1.07.28) To accept a verdict is possible. To accept a curse is impossible.

1.82

37. What has been spoken in secret will be revealed in the women's quarters.

1.83

38-39. (cf. 6.1.26.a11, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 302, 6.2.5: YBC 8713 ll. 4-5) When a trustworthy boat is sailing, Utu seeks out a trustworthy harbour for it.

1.84

40-41. When a dishonest boat is sailing, it runs aground.

1.85

42-43. The oars of a boat ...... sink ...... someone will ask ...... like a raft.

1.86

44-45. A ferryboat sank at Zabalam. "Oh Utu of Larsa, who pulled out the mooring stake?"

1.87

46. A boatman -- belligerence.

1.88

47. (cf. 6.1.07.21) If the boat sinks, I will pull out the cargo.

1.89

48. (cf. 6.1.07.42) Like a boat, he always floats up in the water.

1.90

49-50. ...... a deep-draught (?) boat ...... it should be a boat of sixty gur capacity .......

1.91

51. My girlfriend's heart is a heart made for me.

1.92

52. Who can reveal the heart that is ...... made for me?

1.93

53. ...... my heart ...... let me go to that place.

1.94

54-55. 2 lines fragmentary

1.95

56. (cf. 6.2.1: Ni 13186 Seg. B l. 2) In my heart you are a human being, but in my eyes you are not a man.

1.96

57-58. (cf. 6.1.22: ll. 201-202) When the heart overflows, it is lamentable. {He who can keep it in his heart is a prince.} {(1 ms. has instead:) I am a prince who can keep it in the heart.}

1.97

59-60. (cf. 6.1.07.104, 6.1.11.53) Those who get excited should not become foremen. A shepherd should not become a farmer.

1.98

61-62. What comes out from the heart of the tree is known by the heart of the tree.

1.99

63-64. He is at ease, he is pleased, he makes a living, he offers a prayer.

1.100

65. (cf. 6.1.07.51) Whether he ate it or not, the seed was good.

1.101

66-67. He broke it into pieces and sated his hunger. He wiped his hands and belched.

1.102

68. He who drinks beer drinks water.

1.103

69. (cf. 1.44) He who eats too much cannot sleep.

1.104

70. (cf. 6.1.11.54, 6.1.15.c3, 6.1.26.b4, 6.1.28.8) If one pours oil into the inside of a sceptre {(2 mss. add:) nobody will know.}

1.105

71-72. A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred.

1.106

73-77. The water dried up from the water meadows; there were no fishermen there. The fisherman caught no fish. The fisherman's wife ...... could not bring it to her female friend's chamber.

1.107

78-80. Let it be plentiful, so that it is not deficient. Let it be excessive, so that it does not have to be supplemented. Let it be piping hot, so that it does not become cold.

1.108

81-82. Inwardly a ewe, outwardly a ewe, a most fecund spouse: "Let the shepherd perish, but may you not perish."

1.109

83-85. (cf. 6.1.11.39) You cannot butt me with your horns! Who is it that you are butting? You cannot kill me -- I am running away!

1.110

86. 1 line fragmentary

1.111

87-88. 2 lines fragmentary

1.112

89. Across the heavens (an bal), across the earth, litter (anba) is distributed (anba) over the earth.(based on puns)

1.113

90. 1 line unclear



1.114

91. 1 line fragmentary

1.115

92. 1 line fragmentary

1.116

93. A trough for kneading dough, not kept clean.

1.117

94. A trough from which the pigs eat.

1.118

95. 1 line fragmentary

1.119

96. 1 line fragmentary

1.120

97-98. ...... in their backside ...... something ....... unknown no. of lines missing



Segment C

1.124

1-2. 2 lines fragmentary

1.125

3-5. (cf. 6.1.14.41, 6.1.22: l. 33, 6.1.23.2) My husband heaps up for me, my child measures out for me; let my lover pick the bones from the fish for me.

1.126

6. (cf. 6.1.14.42, 6.1.19.c6, 6.1.22: l. 34, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 284) A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the steppe.

1.127

7-8. {...... pleasing ...... divorce .......} {(1 ms. has instead:) 2 lines fragmentary}

1.128

9-13. (cf. 6.1.22: ll. 146-147, 6.1.23.9, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 210) In the sky there is the raven; on the earth there is the mongoose; in the desert there is the lion ......; my husband! Where shall I go?

1.129

14-15. 2 lines fragmentary unknown no. of lines missing



Segment D

1.140

1. 1 line fragmentary

1.141

2-3. ...... the brothers in anger destroyed their father's estate.

1.142

4-6. (cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 306) Oh my sister, if there were no outdoor shrines, and, oh my mother, if there were no river as well, I would be dying of hunger.

1.143

7-9. (cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 301) Thus my mother and my younger sister act toward me; ...... am I so deficient in judgment that I should offer my cheek to her?

1.144

10. You are not one who stays in one place, you are one who is everywhere.

1.145

11-12. (cf. 6.1.19.c3, 6.1.22: ll. 87-88, 6.1.28.4) Accept your lot and make your mother happy. Run fast and make your god happy.

1.146

13-14. (cf. 6.1.19.c4) Marry a wife according to your choice. Have children to your heart's content.

1.147

15-17. (cf. 6.1.19.c5) May Inana make a hot-limbed wife lie with you! May she bestow upon you broad-shouldered sons! May she seek out for you a happy place!

1.148

18-19. Girl, your brother cannot choose for you; whom do you choose?

1.149

20-21. Girl, your brother is like me. A brother should let you live as would I.

1.150

22-23. (cf. 6.1.11.7) Like my own affairs, antimony paste (?) is air: let ...... fat be eaten in the mist.

1.151

24-26. (cf. 6.1.14.40, 6.1.28.17) When I married a malicious husband, when I bore a malicious son, an unhappy heart was assigned to me.

1.152

27-28. ...... who does not ...... has no cause for celebration.

1.153

29-30. (cf. 6.1.03.9, 6.1.16.b5, 6.1.22: ll. 26-27, 6.1.23.7) He who does not support a wife, he who does not support a child, has no cause for celebration.

1.154

31-32. (cf. 6.1.14.44) A malicious wife living in the house is worse than all diseases.

1.155

33-35. (cf. 6.1.07.93) Conceived by no father, conceived by no mother, the enbar reed came out of the eye of the storm.

1.156

36-37. A male aroused eats salt. A female aroused is dragged in the mud (?).

1.157

38-39. A disorderly son -- his mother should not have given birth to him. His god should not have created him.

1.158

40-41. My wife said "Unfaithful!" to me -- shall I go chasing after women's genitals?

1.159

42. (cf. 6.1.23.7) An unfaithful penis matches (?) an unfaithful vagina.

1.160

43-44. (cf. 6.1.14.39) Marrying is human. Having children is divine.

1.161

45-46. ...... born ...... superior .......

1.162

47. ...... his mother ...... dishonest young man .......

1.163

48. Inana .......

1.164

49-50. What ......? A tradesman gave it to me .......

1.165

51-52. (cf. 6.1.03.65, 6.1.17.b8, 6.1.22: ll. 194-196) Oh merchant, how you use up silver! And how you use up barley!

1.166

53-54. At the top it is a wild cow, at the bottom it is a fish. At the top it is shattered potsherds, at the bottom it is half a cubit.

1.167

55-56. (cf. 6.1.07.22) I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum!

1.168

57-58. 2 lines fragmentary

1.169

59-60. (cf. 6.1.14.46a) Sons-in-law -- what have they brought? Fathers-in-law -- what have they disposed of?

1.170

61-62. (cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 334) She who says "My expense" is her girl friend. An interfering neighbour is the one with whom she quarrels.

1.171

63-64. 2 lines fragmentary

1.172

65-66. In the seventh month he did not slaughter (?) a pig. In the sixth month he did not put on a new turban.

1.173

67-69. A sheep ...... to her girl friend ...... 1 line fragmentary

1.174

70-71. (cf. 6.1.07.47) I walk about, I don't get tired. I keep moving, I don't sleep.

1.175

72-74. (cf. 6.1.07.49) When the rags have been cut up, when the barley is lying in the dust, what is there left to get?

1.176

75-76. (cf. 6.1.07.52) I am a lady who wears large garments. Let me cut my loincloth!

1.177

77-78. (cf. 6.1.07.53) You are the master of a broad river. You are eating .......

1.178

79-80. When you are eating, may nothing lack. When you are in need of water, may things not dry up.

1.179

81-82. 1 line fragmentary ...... drinking .......

1.180

83. ...... pleasant thing ....... approx. 2 lines missing



1.183

86-87. (cf. 6.1.07.76) My cry of joy ...... by the nether world, but my mental powers are not thereby taken away.

1.184

88. {Let not my mental powers ...... be diminished.} {(1 ms. has instead:) ...... far off ...... deficient .......}

1.185

89-90. A chattering girl is silenced by her mother. A chattering boy is not silenced by his mother.

1.186

91-92. His gathered brushwood will be carried off. His destroyed parapet {will} {(1 ms. has instead:) will not} be plundered.

1.187

93-94. (cf. 6.1.07.74) The ferryboat is ...... too many men. "My man shall not board it!"

1.188

95-97. You don't know how to spread it out. How your tresses hang down! Your hair ...... one cubit ....... My lady, you ...... not .......

1.189

98. Food is the matter, water is the matter.

1.190

99-100. (cf. 6.1.19.c9) Fatty meat is good. Fatty mutton is good. -- What shall {I} {(1 ms. has instead:) we} give the slave girl?

1.191

102. (cf. 6.1.21.c3) Let her eat the ham of a pig!

1.192

103-105. You are pouring the fat from the meat, you are pulling out the roasted barley -- when you carry the cooking pot, watch out for your feet!

1.193-194

106-108. (cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 303) To be sick is acceptable; to be pregnant is painful; but to be pregnant and sick is just too much.

1.195

109-110. She has risen high, but cannot go on. She is low, but cannot rise.

1.196

111-113. A brewing (?) trough not previously tried is put to the test by means of salt. A mixing jar (?) not previously tried is put to the test by means of water. A son-in-law whose behaviour (?) is unknown is put to the test by means of quarrels.

1.197

114-118. In the darkness ...... painted (?) 1 line fragmentary someone ...... attractiveness .......

1.198

119-123. A daughter-in-law ...... 3 lines fragmentary girl .......

1.199

124-128. 5 lines fragmentary

1.200

129-131. 3 lines fragmentary

1.201

132-135. ...... beloved ...... lives ...... beloved ...... lives .......

1.202

136-140. 3 lines fragmentary ...... don't cover the ...... with your hand.

Segment E

unplaced

1.e1

1-4. (= Alster 1997 p. 26 YY) 4 lines fragmentary

Segment F

unplaced

1.f1

1-3. (= Alster 1997 p. 16 Y) 3 lines fragmentary

Segment G

unplaced

1.g1

1-2. (= Alster 1997 p. 6 AA 1-2) ...... hate ...... may he .......

1.g2

3-4. (= Alster 1997 p. 6 AA 3-4) ...... like ...... it is yours.

1.g3

5-6. (= Alster 1997 p. 6 AA 5-6, N 5138 1-2) 1 line fragmentary mix .......

1.g4

7-8. (= Alster 1997 p. 6 N 5138 3-4) Let there be ...... 1 line fragmentary

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