Ninurta's exploits: a šir-sud (?) to Ninurta
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lugal-ĝu10 zag-zu ba-ra-ga-an-til ba-ra-ga-an-gub ba-ra-ga-u3-tud
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{d}nin-urta ud-da-ta kur-ra lu2 ba-ra-ra-an-zi-zi
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lugal-ĝu10 šeg11 dili gi4-a-za
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ĝiš-gan2-⌈?⌉ a-gin7 mi2 bi2-ib-⌈?⌉
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⌈?⌉ [ki]-bal […] X mu-[ni-in]-?
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en [{d}]nin-[urta] […]
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a2-[sag3] […]
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⌈?⌉ […]
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⌈ĝiš⌉-gana2 X […]
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a2-sag3 ki-bal-a {u2}⌈numun2⌉-[gin7 bur12-ra {u2}numun2-gin7 ze2-a]
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en {d}nin-urta-ke4 {ĝiš}tukul-a-ni ⌈im⌉-[…]
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⌈?⌉ ?-gin7 X-gin7 gub-bu ul-la-ĝa2 ⌈?-ge⌉ […]
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[ud]-da-ta a2-sag3 nam-ba-DI na4 mu-bi ḫe2-[em]
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na4 {na4}zalag mu-bi ḫe2-em na4 mu-bi ḫe2-em
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ur5-ra-am3 bar-bi irigal ḫe2-em
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nam-ur-saĝ-bi en-ra ḫe2-em
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[{ĝiš}]⌈tukul⌉ ub-ub-da gub-bu nam tar-re-⌈da⌉
The blessing of the club, laid to rest in a corner: 'The mighty battle which reduces the Land'. (1 line missing)
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[me3 maḫ-e] kalam-ma-ta be4-e
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ud-bi-a a silim ki-ta du a-gar3-ra nu-um-de2
At that time, the good water coming forth from the earth did not pour down over the fields. The cold water (?) was piled up everywhere, and the day when it began to …… it brought destruction in the mountains, since the gods of the Land were subject to servitude, and had to carry the hoe and the basket -- this was their corvée work -- people called on a household for the recruitment of workers. The Tigris did not bring up its flood in its fullness. Its mouth did not finish in the sea, it did not carry fresh water. No one brought (?) offerings to the market. The famine was hard, as nothing had yet been born. No one yet cleaned the little canals, the mud was not dredged up. No one yet drew water for the fertile fields, ditch-making did not exist. People did not work (?) in furrows, barley was sown broadcast.
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a sed du8-du8-du8-u3 ud zal-le-da-gin7 kur-ra e2-ri-a ba-ni-ib2-il2-a
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diĝir kalam-ma ba-sug2-ge-eš-a
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{ĝiš}al {ĝiš}dusu-bi mu-un-la2-eš-a
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ur5-ra-am3 eš2-gar3-bi i3-me-a
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uĝ3 tar-bi-še3 e2 lu2 gu3 ba-an-de2
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{id2}idigna nam-gu-la-ba an-še3 u5-bi nu-il2-e
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kun-bi a-ab-ba-e li-[bi2-la2-a] a dug3 nu-um-[…]
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? kar-re lu2 nu-?-e
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šag4-ĝar ḫul-a niĝ2 nu-tu-ud
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id2 tur-tur-re šu luḫ lu2 li-bi2-in-ak saḫar nu-mu-da-an-zi-zi-i
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gana2 zid-da a nu-šub-šub-be2 eg2 ak nu-ĝal2-la
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kur-kur-re ab-sin2-na nu-gub-bu še bir-a i-im-ak
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en-e ĝeštug2 maḫ im-gub-be2
The lord applied his great wisdom to it. Ninurta Ninĝirsu , the son of Enlil, set about it in a grand way. He made a pile of stones in the mountains. Like a floating cloud he stretched out his arms over it. With a great wall he barred the front of the Land. He installed a sluice (?) on the horizon. The hero acted cleverly, he dammed in the cities together. He blocked (?) the powerful waters by means of stones. Now the waters will never again go down from the mountains into the earth. That which was dispersed he gathered together. Where in the mountains scattered lakes had formed, he joined them all together and led them down to the Tigris. He poured carp-floods of water over the fields.
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{d}nin-urta {d}nin-!-! dumu {d}en-lil2-la2-ke4 gal-bi i3-ĝa2-ĝa2
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gu-ru-um na4 kur-ra mi-ni-in-ak
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dungu dirig-ga-gin7 a2 bi2-in-sud-su3-ud
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bad3 maḫ-gin7 kalam-ma igi-ba bi2-in-tab-⌈ba⌉
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{ĝiš}bal ki-šar2-ra mu-ni-in-ĝar
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ur-saĝ-e mu-un-galam iri teš2-bi ⌈mu⌉-[un]-uš2
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a kalag-ga na4 im-da-an-sa2
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i3-ne-eš2 a kur da-ri2-še3 ki-a nu-um-ed3-de3
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i3-bir-bir-am3 gu2 ba-ni-in-ĝar
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kur-ra sug-e ba-ni-ib2-gu7-a
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mu-un-ur4-ur4 {id2}idigna im-ma-an-šum2
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a-eštub{ku6} a-gar3-ra mi-ni-in-de2-de2
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i3-ne-eš2 ud-da niĝ2 ki-šar2-ra-ke4
Now, today, throughout the whole world, kings of the Land far and wide rejoice at Lord Ninurta. He provided water for the speckled barley in the cultivated fields, he raised up piled up the harvest of fruits in garden and orchard. He heaped up the grain piles like mounds. The lord caused trading colonies to go up from the Land of Sumer. He contented the desires of the gods. They duly praised Ninurta's father.
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lugal kalam-ma en {d}nin-urta-ra su3-ud-bi-še3 mu-un-ḫul2-e-eš
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gan2-ne2 še gu-nu a mi-ni-in-šum2
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buru14 pu2-kiri6-ke4 šu gurun im-mi-in-il2
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guru7-du6-de3 guru7-du6-re gu2 im-mi-in-gur-gur
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en-e kalam-ta kar im-ta-an-ed3
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diĝir-re-e-ne ur5-bi mu-un-sag9
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{d}nin-urta a-a-ni me-teš2 me-i-i-ne
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ud-bi-a munus-ra arḫuš-a sa2 nam-ga-mu-ni-ib2-dug4
At that time he also reached a woman with compassion. Ninmaḫ was sleepless from remembering the place where she had conceived him. She covered her outside with a fleece, like an unshorn ewe, she made a great lament about the now inaccessible mountains:
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{d}nin-maḫ-e ki ĝiš3 dug4-ga-ni-še3 u3 nu-um-[ši-ib2-ku-ku]
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siki u8 dugud-gin7 bar-ra bi2-in-dul
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i-lu kur ĝiri3 nu-ĝal2-la-bi gal-gal-bi mi-ni-ib2-be2
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u3-mu-un a2 maḫ-a-ni kur-re nu-il2-i
The mountains could not bear the lord's great strength. The great hero -- the force of whose rage no one can approach, like heaven itself; the savage storm which walks on earth, spilling poison in the earth's breast; the lord, the life-breath of Enlil, whose head is worthy of the tiara, …… who knows nothing of ……: in triumph he hurried by me, he with whom my husband made me pregnant (?). I bore him for my husband. He was close ……; but the son of Enlil passed by and did not lift his glance to me. For the good youth -- thus the good lady said as she went to him in E-šu-me-ša, his chosen place -- I will cut the knot. Now I, yes I, shall go to the presumptuous lord, to gaze upon the precious lord. I will go directly to him, to my son, Enlil's judge, the great hero, favoured by his father.
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ur-saĝ gal an-gin7 ib2-ba-na a2-bi lu2 nu-teĝ3-ĝe26
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ud sumur ki-a du uš11 gaba-ba ĝar-a
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en ši {d}mu-ul-lil2-la2 men saĝ-e du7
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UR […] nu-zu
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še-er-ma-al saĝ ma-an-ze2-eĝ3 dam mu-un-gub-bu-na-ĝu10
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mu-ud-da-na in-ši-tu-ud ba-an-us2 ḫur nu-mu-da-ab-ĝar-ra
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du5-mu {d}mu-ul-lil2-la2 šu mu-un-dag i-bi2-ni na-ma-an-il2-la
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šul zid munus zid-de3 ba-an-dug4
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e2-šu-me-ša4 ki i-bi2 il2-la-ni in-ne-a-ĝen-na
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gu da-an-ši-in-kud u3-mu-un er9-ra-še3
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ga-ša-an-ĝen dili-ĝu10-ne ga-an-ši-ĝen en da gi16-sa-še3
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a2-še ĝe26-e u6 mu-na-ni-[in]-dug4
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si sa2 du5-mu di-kud {d}mu-ul-lil2-la2
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ur-saĝ gal aĝ2 sag9-ga a-a-na ḫe2-em-da-ri-am3
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munus-e šir3 kug-ge-eš i3-aĝ2-ĝe26
The lady performed the song in a holy manner. Ninmaḫ recited it to Lord Ninurta. He looked at her with his life-giving looks and spoke to her:
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{d}nin-maḫ-e en {d}nin-urta-ra mu-ni-ib-be2
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igi nam-til3-la-ka-ni mu-un-ši-in-bar gu3 mu-na-de2-e
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munus kur-še3 i-im-ĝen-ne-en-na-gin7
Lady, since you came to the mountains, Ninmaḫ ('Great Lady'), since you entered the rebel lands for my sake, since you did not keep far from me when I was surrounded by the horrors of battle -- let the name of the pile which I, the hero, have piled up be 'Mountain' (ḫursaĝ) and may you be its lady (nin): now that is the destiny decreed by Ninurta. Henceforth people shall speak of Ninḫursaĝa. So be it. Let its meadows produce herbs for you. Let its slopes produce honey and wine for you. Let its hillsides grow cedars, cypress, juniper and box for you. Let it make abundant for you ripe fruits, as a garden. Let the mountain supply you richly with divine perfumes. Let it mine gold and silver for you, make …… for you. Let it smelt copper and tin for you, make its tribute for you. Let the mountains make wild animals teem for you. Let the mountain increase the fecundity of quadrupeds for you. You, O Queen, become equal to An, wearing a terrifying splendour. Great goddess who detests boasting, good lady, maiden Ninḫursaĝa, Nintur, …… approach me. Lady, I have given you great powers: may you be exalted.
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{d}nin-maḫ nam-ĝu10-še3 ki-bal-a mu-un-kur9-re-en-na-gin7
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me3 ni2 ḫuš-ba ri-a-ĝa2 la-ba-an-sud-de3-en-na-gin7
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ur-saĝ-me-en gu-ru-um ĝar-ra-ĝa2
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ḫur-saĝ mu-bi ḫe2-em za-e nin-bi ḫe2-em
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i3-ne-eš2 nam tar-ra {d}nin-urta-ka
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ud-da {d}nin-ḫur-saĝ-ĝa2 di-še3 ur5 ḫe2-en-na-nam-ma-am3
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šag4-tum2-bi šim ḫa-ra-an-mu2
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[…]-⌈tum2⌉-bi ŠIM LA2 ? […]
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gu2-gu2-bi lal3 ĝeštin ḫa-ra-an-mu2
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{ĝiš}erin {ĝiš}šu-ur2-men2 {ĝiš}za-ba-lum {ĝiš}taškarin du8-du8-bi ḫa-ra-an-mu2
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kiri6-gin7 niĝ2-sa-ḫa šu ḫu-mu-ra-ni-ib-tag
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ḫur-saĝ-e ir nam-diĝir-ra ḫu-mu-ra-an-[gu]-ul-?-e
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kug-sig17 kug-babbar ḫu-mu-ra-ab-bal-e ḪI.IB.LAL3 ḫu-mu-ra-ab-ak
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urud nagga ḫu-mu-ra-ab-zal-le gun2-bi ḫu-mu-ra-an-ak
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kur-[re] maš2-anše ḫa-ra-ab-lu-e
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ḫur-saĝ-e niĝ2-ur2-4-e numun ḫa-ra-ni-ib-i-i
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za-e nin-me-en i3-da-sa2-sa2-a an-gin7 ni2 ḫuš gur3-ru
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diĝir maḫ inim dirig-ge ḫul gig
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munus zid nin-ḫur-saĝ ki-sikil
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{d}nin-tur5 a2 sed-bi dab5-be2-še3
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te-e-mu-da nin me maḫ ma-ra-an-šum2 za-e ḫe2-em-il2-e
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en-e kur-ra nam mu-ni-in-tar-re du-ni eš3 nibru{ki}-a
While the lord was fixing the destiny of the mountains, as he walked about in the sanctuary of Nibru, the good lady whose powers excel all powers, Lady-creatrix-of-the-womb, Aruru, Enlil's elder sister, stood before him:
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munus zid me-ni me dirig-ga nin nagar šag4-ga
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