~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine
CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 058
1. [...] he set [...] toward [...]
2. [By the life of] my own mother, divine [Nin]sun(?), and my [father], holy Lugal[banda]!
3. May I [become again(?)] as if slumbering in wonder(?) on the lap of my own mother Ninsun.
4. For a [second] time he indeed said it to him:
5. By the life of my own mother Ninsun and my [father(?)], holy Lugalbanda!
6. Whether he be a [hu]man, whether he be known(?), whether he be a god [...],
7. my steps that I have set toward the mountains I shall not set back toward the city!
8. The faithful slave, who would soothe(?), who makes life seem sweet,
9. answered his mas…
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