A city laments its destruction — Nanna’s sanctuary is razed, the goddess Ningal mourns, and the ruined streets of Ur are addressed in the second person.
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Tradition
Sumerian city-lament. One of the five great laments composed after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2004 BCE). A direct ancestor of the biblical book of Lamentations in form and rhetoric.
Translation
ETCSL — J.A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson, G. Zólyomi et al. (2003). Used by permission for educational and non-commercial purposes.
License
ETCSL translation. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary under ETCSL's non-commercial educational use clause.