Lamentation on the Pillage of Lagash by the Elamites. 2154 (No. 6)
This neatly written but seriously damaged single column tablet carried when complete about fifty-five lines. In style the liturgical lamentation has a striking resemblance to the lamentation [pg 269] on the invasion of Sumer by the people of Gutium, published in the author's Sumerian Liturgical Texts, 120-124. The same refrain, “How long? oh my destroyed city and my destroyed temple, sadly I wail,” distinguishes both compositions.[183] Other lines are common to both threnodies. The contents are similar to the lamentation on Lagash published in Cuneiform Texts of the British Museum, Vol. XV 22, of which Zimmern has published a variant VAT. 617 Rev. II 10-42, in his Sumerische Kultleider. A translation of the British Museum text will be found in the author's Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. 284, an edition which can now be improved.
1. a-a[...]
1. Father [
2. ? dingir[...]
2. ...
3. a uru-gul-la é-[gul-la-mu gíg-ga-bi im-mi]
3. How long? oh my destroyed city, my destroyed temple, sadly I wail.[184]
4. ud-ba enim ud-dam bi-[...]