![]() Its architrave is a scorpion which quickly dashes from the dust it overpowers everything. Its door jamb is a great dagger whose two edges. Its stairs are a great open-mouthed dragon, lying in wait for men. ![]() House, river of the ordeal which leaves the just ones alive, and chooses the evil ones! House, with a great name, nether world, mountain where Utu rises no one can learn its interior! Big house, prison, house of capital offences, which imposes punishment! House, which chooses the righteous and the wicked An has made its name great!ġ2-26: House whose foundations are laden with great awesomeness! Its gate is the yellow evening light, exuding radiance. House, a pitfall waiting for the evil one it makes the wicked tremble! House, a net whose fine meshes are skillfully woven, which gathers up people as its booty! House, which keeps an eye on the just and on evildoers no one wicked can escape from its grasp. Raging sea which mounts high, no one knows where its rising waves flow. ![]() Ellipses indicate missing words or lines, and question marks suggest an alternate translation of a word.ġ-11: House, furious storm of heaven and earth, battering its enemies prison, jail of the gods, august neck-stock of heaven and earth! Its interior is evening light, dusk spreading wide its awesomeness is frightening. The following is taken from The Literature of Ancient Sumer, translated by Jeremy Black et al., and from The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, translated by the same. ![]()
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