The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

ETCSLtransliteration : c.5.2.5

The poem of early rulers

	(This composition also exists in various later, slightly adapted, versions, including mss. from Emar and Ugarit from the 13th century BC)
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6.	[…] X li-bi-in-du₃-a
7.	[…] X-am₃ lu₂-be₂-ne šu bal ak-a
8.	[…] /lugal\-e mu 36000-am₃ in-ak
9.	[…] /lugal\-e lu₂ an-še₃ bi₂-in-ed₂-de₃
10.	[…] /zi\-ud-su₃-ra₂-gin₇ nam-til₃ i₃-kiĝ₂-kiĝ₂
11.	[…] ba-an-za-za dab₅^?-ba^?-ta
12.	[…] /kalam^?\-ma^? nu^?-dar-ra-ke₄
13.	[…] /lugal\-e-ne dub-saĝ ud ul-le₂-a-ke₄-ne
14.	[…]-un-peš₄-peš₄-/a\ nu-un-tu-ud-da
15.	[…]-/gin₇\ šu-ĝu₁₀ sa₂ bi₂-in-dug₄-ga
16.	[…] na-me nu-mu-un-zu-a
17.	[…]-a-bi […] X igi niĝin₂-na-kam
18.	[…] /nu\-zalag-ga […] ugu nam-uš₂-a-kam [a]-ba-am₃ {bi₂-in-dirig-ga} {(1 ms. has instead:) […] X ĜIŠ KA-am₃}
19.	[…] /il₂\-la ud šag₄ ḫul₂-la X niĝ₂-me-ĝar mu 36000-am₃ in-ak
20.	[…] diĝir-re-e-ne bi₂-in-šum₂-ma-am₃ […]-ra^?-ra nam-til₃ i₃-kiĝ₂-kiĝ₂
21.	[…] ḫa-la lu₂-u₁₈-lu-kam […] til₃-a e₂ ĝuruš-ke₄

Print sources

Alster 1986: score transliteration, translation, commentary

Alster 1990c: score transliteration, translation, commentary (no. 4)

Electronic sources

Krecher 1996: composite text

Cuneiform sources

BM 80091 (ASJ 8 10-11) rev. ii 94-98

BM 80184 (CT 44 18) rev. ii 83'-98'

CBS 1208 rev. ii 95-98

Revision history

04.vi.2000: JAB, editor: standardisation
03.viii.2000: GZ, editor: proofreading
04.viii.2000: GC, editor: SGML tagging
22.ix.2000: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
22.ix.2000: 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