A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
Seven line-ends from Kish. Seven line-ends, nothing more.
Published as a reading. No first-translation claim is made for this piece. The checks that would settle such a claim are named in the notes below and are still open; the wording on this page claims nothing they have not settled.
Publication number: PRAK B 352 — copy no. B 352 in de Genouillac, Premières recherches archéologiques à Kich (PRAK, 1924–25: hand copies, no translations in the volumes). From Kish. Old Babylonian. Corpus ID: CDLI P344168; served to OBEL (Old Babylonian Emesal Liturgies), genre "Uncertain." Composition: Unidentified. Seven line-ends: a hand, the land, and one line that still holds a posture — me-a gig, "where [...] I [...] sick." A lady (nin) stands alone on the reverse. Source: OBEL's served interlinear text, fetched and saved by Wave C (). OBEL serves no translation. the witness, doors on the face below. Counting rule used here: a line counts part if a complete verb form or a glossed phrase survives; fragment if only isolated words or traces survive; whole only if a complete clause survives intact. No line counts whole.
Publication check (C3, Oct 22): no edition, translation, or discussion of PRAK B 352 found in the program's tree or in open search under its PRAK number or CDLI P344168. Doors left on the face: (1) The PRAK volume itself (copy of record). (2) Delnero, SANER 26 (Kish coverage; print-check wave). (3) CDLI's record (P344168) — unread; CDLI is still down.
Dragon/serpent flag: none. Nothing of the kind is preserved.
o 1′: ⸢DI⸣ [... ] [...] (a trace) [...]
o 2′: šu a-[... ] the hand [...]
o 3′: ka-na-⸢aŋ₂⸣ [... ] the land [...]
o 4′: me-a gig [... ] where [...] I [...] sick [...]
o 5′: e₂-a-ni [... ] his house [...]
o 6′: x-x [... ] [...] (traces) [...]
r 1: nin x-[... ] the lady [...]
7 served line-units: 0 whole · 1 part · 6 fragment · 0 invented. The part-line is o 4′ — the corpus glosses both words (meʾe, "I"; gig, "sick"), and together they hold a speaker.
Seven endings is nearly nothing, and the build does not pretend otherwise. But the fourth line is a person: I — sick — the same first-person sickness that stands at the end of tonight's HS 2729. The laments keep handing us their speakers at the exact point of affliction, in the last syllables of broken lines, and that is what is recorded here.
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