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A shirgida to Nuska (Nuska A)
Written in modern English
The opening two lines are missing or too damaged to read. What follows praises Nuska as the one who bundles the divine powers together, gives instruction across the whole breadth of heaven and earth, and serves as adviser to the Land. Enlil, the Great Mountain, has summoned Nuska to his divine powers, and has granted him a glorious long life in heaven and earth — for Nuska was fathered by lord Nunamnir and is his beloved son. Enlil has entrusted to Nuska the princely divine powers of the E-kur, its august and holy offices, its most complex powers — though the passage breaks off before the full list is given.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSL2 lines missing or fragmentary You who bundle together the divine powers, ...... the divine powers, articulate ...... house of the king ......, who give instruction throughout the breadth of heaven and earth, adviser of the Land, Nuska! The Great Mountain Enlil has summoned you to his divine powers. He has made long life issue gloriously in heaven and earth for you who were fathered by lord Nunamnir; you are his beloved lord. He has entrusted the princely divine powers of the E-kur, the august shrine, the holy divine powers, the august and most complex divine powers, the divine powers of the…
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature — scholar edition (Oxford, Black/Cunningham/Robson/Zólyomi).
Scholarly note
Composition c.4.29.1 in the ETCSL catalogue. Sumerian literary text reconstructed from multiple cuneiform manuscripts, the great majority Old Babylonian (c. 1900–1600 BCE). Translation reproduced from the ETCSL edition.
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Translation excerpted from ETCSL c.4.29.1: A shirgida to Nuska (Nuska A). Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E. & Zólyomi, G. (eds.), The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.4.29.1.
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