... _sir-ri-es ba-ab-bi-ne_
28. ... in misery they speak.

29. ... _ki-dur-bi kar-ra_
29. ... whose habitations are desolated.

30. ... _im-si-sir-sir-e-ne-es_(48)
30. Unto ... they have hastened.

31. ... _ne-ne-tug_
31. ...?

32. ... _ga(?)nu-zu-gim_
32. ... like one that knows not.

33. ... _sug_(49)
33. ... is in confusion.

(END OF COL. I.)

COL. II

(About fifteen lines broken away.)(50)

1. ... _gal_
1. ....

2. ... _-e ba-ab-dug-am_(51)
2. ....

3. ... _ma-lal im-me_
3. ....

4. ... _gul-nu-zu-ne nig-dug be-ib-tar-ru-us-am_
4. ... evil they know not, good they have decreed.

5. _i-lu-gig im-me_
5. Bitter lament I(52) utter.

6. _nam-lu-gal-bi mas-ansu-gim sag-ba mi-ni-ib-til-la-as_
6. Her population like cattle of the fields within her have perished.

7. _a ka-na-am-mu im-me_
7. Helas! my Land! I sigh.

8. _ki-el kalag tul-tul-la-bi-ne sur_(_53_)_-ri- -es mi-ni-ib- sal-la-as_
8. Maid and young man and their children cruelly have been scattered far
and wide.

9. _is-a-bi im-me_
9. Tearfully I sigh.

10. _ses-bi imi-dugud seg-ga-gim di-e-be-ib-sud-am_(54)
10. Their brothers like a rain storm have fled afar.

11. _er-su nu- gul-_(_55_)_ e_
11. I cease not to weep.

12. _e-e ab amar-bi kud-du gim ni-bi-su ur-gig-ga_(_56_)_ im-gub_
12. The household like a cow, whose calf has been separated from her,
stand by themselves with sorrowful souls.

13. _sig-sig_(_57_)_ ni- mal- mal_
13. They have lapsed into the misery of silence.

14. _balag-di_(_58_)_ lu-ad-dug-ga-ge_(_59_)_-ne um-me-da-u-a-di-gim_
14. Oh sing to the lyre! The wailers like a child nursing mother who cries
in woe

15. _mu-bi er-ra mi-ni-ib-bal-bal-e-ne_
15. because of them devised lamentation.

16. _uru u-mu-un-bi sag-ib-ta-an-dim-ma_
16. The city whose lord had been magnified,

17. _igi-ni sa kur-ra ib-ta-an-gar-ra ad-e-es ba-an-ara-as_
17. In whose presence a hostile rule has been established, with sighing
they have caused to walk.

18. _e-zid kur-kur-ra igi-su ba-an-gin-na_
18. As for the faithful temple, which in the lands excelled all,

19. _uku sag-gig-gi us-zi_(_60_)_ be-ib-tub-ba_
19. (Where) the people, the dark headed, reposed _in security_;

20. _a-na ib-ag a-na im-ga-lam-ma-bi_(61)
20. What has done it, what has destroyed it?

21. _u-mu-un-bi ib-ta-kas sag-ki-a mu-un-du_
21. Its lord is a fugitive, he _hastens in flight_.

22. _ki-sub_(_62_)_-