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A balbale to Šara (Šara A)

Sumerian literature (ETCSL) · 4 - Hymns and cult songs · 18 sections

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   X X X […] si ḫu-⌈mu⌉-[…]

   (29 lines missing) (1 line fragmentary) …… great radiance ……. Šara, the song praising you befits you. Šara, your divine powers are most precious; Father An, who has engendered you …….

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   si maḫ-e KA ⌈?⌉ […]

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   {d}šara2 šir3-zu me-te-aš ši-im-[mi-ib-ĝal2]

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   {d}šara2 me-zu kal-kal a-a an u3-tud-zu […]

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   ama ⌈ugu⌉-zu kug {d}inana-[ke4]

   Your own mother, holy Inana, has let you sit with her on the holy ……. …… she is the Mistress. She has let you ……. She has called you by a good name. …… joyfully in your ……. …… dwells ……; the lord shines forth in its midst. (1 line fragmentary) Šara, you ……, praying in the good and holy ……. ……, the princely son, grandiloquent …… holy ……, coming forth like the sun from the shrine E-maḫ.

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   [X X] X kug-ga dur2 ša-mu-u8-de3-[ĝar]

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   […]-da nu-u8-gig-ga-am3

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   […] X am3-mi-ni-in-DU-en

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    […] mu dug3-ga mi-ri-in-sa4

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    […] X-za ḫul2-bi

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    […] ša-mu-un-til3 en šag4-ba dalla i3-e3

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    [X X] ⌈an⌉-na-ke4 X X MU X X X X

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    [{d}]⌈šara2⌉ ḪAR-re X […] X-en

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    X dug3 kug-ga u3-gul ĝar X [(X)] X X X-ga

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    [X] dumu-gir15 gal-di X kug X X

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    ⌈eš3⌉ e2-maḫ-ta ud-de3-eš i-im-e3

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    [bal]-bal-e {d}šara2-kam

    A balbale of Šara.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Copyright holders: Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Jarle Ebeling, Esther Flückiger-Hawker, Eleanor Robson, Jon Taylor and Gábor Zólyomi. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Source.