Origin/Historian/Author: Sumer (ca. 2000 BCE)
Source: Sumerian Liturgical Texts, By Stephen Langdon, 1917
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OBVERSE
1. At that time the spirit of wrath upon the city he sent and the city lamented.
2. Father Nannar upon the city of master-workmen sent it,
3. and the people lamented.
4. At that time the Word hastened upon the Land, and the people wailed.
5. Her people without water jars without her sit in humiliation.
6. Within her reed baskets are thrown in the ways and the people lament.
7. ….. in her streets the corpses. …..
8. In her ….. an usurper exercised.
9. In her ….. corpses were placed.
REVERSE
1. The city the spirit of wrath destroyed.
2. The interlude of the strophe (is as follows)
3. The mother Ningal her city inhabits not.
4. Without she wanders.