THE DEFEAT OF ENUTILA, ENMERSHARRA, AND QINGU

Origin/Historian/Author: Neo Babylonian
Sources: Siglum of tablets in the British Museum

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2 [Their clamor] got loud, [as they threw Tiāmat into a turmoil].
3 [They jarred] the nerves of Tiāmat,
4 [And by their dancing they spread alarm] in Anduruna.
5 [Apsû did not diminish] their noise,
6 [And Tiāmat was] silent at their hubbub.
7 . . . ] Nabû was spreading destruction.
8 [After] Ninurta had killed Enutila the leader,
9 . . . ] . took his rites.
10 He extinguished the life [of] Enmešarra,
11 He released his seven [sons] from their bonds at the Market Gate.
12 [ . . ] . . he refurbished them and stationed them at Ganṣir.
13 [He strengthened] their fetters and made Ištar-of-Babylon hold them.
14 He/They destroyed the offspring [of] Qingu, the director of the host of Eguzalimmaḫ,
15 [ . . ] . he took the lordship of the owner of the sheep-pen of Eturkalamma,
16 He stripped his lordly tiara off him and rushed it into Marduk’s presence.
17 [In] Ezidagišnugal, an improper place, he bound Dumuzi, the shepherd,
18 [And] Ninzaginna entered Ea’s presence like a flood-storm.