Version notes: I imagine this might be what modern Sumerian rancher music might sound like.
NOTES 03 AUG 2025:
Linguistic updates made possible by Kormos Krisztián. Check out his Sumerian dub of Pulp Fiction. He wanted me to point out that this lovely abomination was made using AI, and that the phonemes are wrong.
I like the idea of competing artists gathering around temples, marketplaces and watering holes to put on the best performance of sacred songs poems.
This is part of an ongoing archaeological art revival project I'm working on for my own satisfaction.
Sources are included below, so you can go look as deeply into the real-world, demonstrable artifacts (including receipts!) as you want. Dig it if you do, but either way be sure to snag my art and books.
-Bobby
www.RobertEnnisArt.com
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TRANSLITERATION:
e-unir an ki-da mu-a
temen an ki unu gal eridugki
abzu ec nun-bi-ir am-gub
e-dul-kug u sikil-la rig-ga
pa sikil nun-na-ka a naj-ja
kur ki sikil-la naja dub dug-ga
abzu tigi-zu me-kam
bad GIJ gal-zu cu si sa-am
ninni-jal ki dijir til-la-za
kij gal kij ki dug ud nu-dib-be
e zag KEC-zu cita sa nu-di
nun-zu nun gal-e men kug
muc-za ma-ra-ni-in-ge-en eridugki saj men jal
ad mu ad sikil ed-de susbu
ec-abzu ki-zu ki gal-zu
ki dutu-ra gu de-za
gir ninda il u sug-sug-za
u-nir ec mah an-ne us-sa-X-za
gir gal unu gal-da sa-a-za
nun-zu nun an ki Sha nu-kur-ru
[X] dug-ga saj du Sha -ni jectug ri-a
Sha en dnu-dim-mud-e
[e-engur-ra] muc-za e bi-in-gub barag-za dur bi-in-jar
[e] e den-ki eridugki-ga
Sha ec nam tar-ra
Sha temen u-nir-ra il-la
Sha a-dam den-lil-la
Sha -bu-zu zid-da-[zu] gab-bu-zu ki-en-gi ki-uri
e den-lil-la cag-zu te-te-en bar-zu nam tar-ra
zag-du [a]-sal-bar-zu kur un
dub-la [zag] ed-zu kur me-te jal
KA-zu KA Sha ad muc nun-za
ur-zu an ki-da kuc-u-de
nun-zu nun gal den-lil en dug
en zag [an]-/na en nam tar-re-da
ec nibruki kur gal den-lil-le
muc-za e bi-in-gub barag-za dur bi-in-jar
e den-lil nibruki-a
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TRANSLATION:
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section...
1-7O E-unir (House which is a ziqqurat), grown together with heaven and earth, foundation of heaven and earth, great banqueting hall of Eridug! Abzu, shrine erected for its prince, E-dul-kug (House which is the holy mound) where pure food is eaten, watered by the prince's pure canal, mountain, pure place cleansed with the potash plant, abzu, your tigi drums belong to the divine powers.
8-15Your great ...... wall is in good repair. Light does not enter your meeting-place where the god dwells, the great assembly-room, the assembly-room, the beautiful place. Your tightly constructed house is sacred and has no equal. Your prince, the great prince, has fixed firmly a holy crown for you in your precinct -- O Eridug with a crown placed on your head, bringing forth thriving thornbushes, pure thornbushes for the susbu priests (?), O Ec-abzu (Shrine which is the abzu), your place, your great place!
16-23At your place of calling upon Utu, at your oven bringing bread to eat, on your ziqqurat, a magnificent shrine stretching toward heaven, at your great oven rivalling the great banqueting hall, your prince, the prince of heaven and earth ...... can never be changed, the ......, the creator, the ......, the wise one, the ......, lord Nudimmud, has erected a house in your precinct, O E-engura (House of the subterranean waters), and taken his seat upon your dais.
2423 lines: the house of Enki in Eridug.
25-33O ......, shrine where destiny is determined, ......, foundation, raised with a ziqqurat, ......, settlement of Enlil, your ......, your right and your left are Sumer and Akkad. House of Enlil, your interior is cool, your exterior determines destiny. Your door-jambs and architrave are a high mountain, your projecting pilasters a dignified mountain. Your peak is a ...... peak of your princely platform. Your base serves heaven and earth.
34-37Your prince, the great prince Enlil, the good lord, the lord of the limits of heaven, the lord who determines destiny, the Great Mountain Enlil, has erected a house in your precinct, O shrine Nibru, and taken his seat upon your dais.
3813 lines: the house of Enlil in Nibru.
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