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ETCSLtransliteration : c.4.08.05

The song of the lettuce: a balbale to Inana (Dumuzid-Inana E)

1.	ba-lam ba-lam-lam ḫi-iz^sar-am₃ a ba-an-dug₄
2.	^ĝiškiri₆ ĝi₆-edin-na gu₂ ĝar-ĝar-ra-na {sag₉-ga ama-na-ĝu₁₀} {(1 ms. has instead:) ḫi-iz^sar a ba-an-de₂}
3.	še ab-sin₂-ba ḫi-li-a sag₉-ĝu₁₀ ḫi-iz^sar-am₃ a ba-an-dug₄
4.	^ĝišḫašḫur aĝ₂ saĝ-ĝa₂ gurun il₂-la-ĝu₁₀ ḫi-iz^sar-am₃ a ba-an-dug₄
5.	lu₂-lal₃-e lu₂-lal₃-e me-e mu-ku₇-ku₇-de₃-en
6.	en-ĝu₁₀ lu₂-lal₃-e dim₃-me-er-ra sag₉-ga ama-na-ĝu₁₀
7.	šu-ni lal₃-e /me\-ri-ni lal₃-e ĝe₂₆-e mu-un-ku₇-ku₇-de₃-[en]
8.	a₂-šu-ĝiri₃-ni lal₃ ku₇-ku₇-dam ĝe₂₆-e mu-un-ku₇-ku₇-[de₃-en]
9.	en₃-dur šu-niĝin₂ tukum ku₇-ku₇-ĝu₁₀ /sag₉\-[ga ama-na-ĝu₁₀]
10.	/ḫaš₄\ sag₉-sag₉ a₂ buluĝ₅ e-ru-ĝu₁₀ ḫi-iz^sar-am₃ [a ba-an-dug₄]
11.	bal-bal-e ^dinana-[kam]

Print sources

Sefati 1998, p. 165-170, XLII: photograph, commentary, translation, score transliteration

Electronic sources

Krecher 1998a: score transliteration

Krecher 1998j: composite text, translation

Sefati 1999: composite text, translation

Cuneiform sources

AO 5385:66ff. (TCL 15 20)

IM 11087,65 (TIM 9 14)

Ni 9846:4'ff. (ISET 2 87)

UET 6 121

Revision history

27.i.1999-08.ii.1999: JAB, editor: standardisation
05.viii.1999: GC, editor: proofreading
16.x.1999: GZ, editor: SGML tagging
29.x.1999: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
29.x.1999: ER, editor: web publication
01.vi.2003: GC/JE, editor/technical developer: XML/TEI conversion
30.iii.2005: GC/JE, senior editor/technical developer: lemmatised version published