Under ordinary circumstances a text for which so many duplicates exist should have yielded better results than I have been able to produce. But the contents are still obscure owing largely to the bad condition of the prism. My first rendering of the interesting refrain in which I saw a reference to the creation of man and woman was apparently erroneous. The refrain refers rather to the creation of the mother goddess of Keš and to her giving birth to her son Negun.[423]
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23. [é ke]š-(ki)-dug-ga dū-a
23. [Temple] in holy Keš builded.
24. [é(?)] ÉN-ḪAR-(ki)-dug-gu dū-a
24. [Temple(?)] in holy EN-ḪAR builded.
25. [é ...] nun-gim an-na dirig-ga
25. [Temple] like ... nun, like heaven exceeding all.[424]
26. [é ...] azag-gim ? -si ri-a