UET 2 - 69 (early ED literary text?)

[Lu-uri-ning-tuku]

Hey guys, I was reading an article and this text was mentioned in passing as ED I-II text which may be literary in nature. It was found in Ur and is now in the Iraq Museum. Here is a copy of it:





Here is the transcription from CDLI:


column 1

1. , SZE~a# A# [...] AB~a# X AB~a#?

2. , [...] AN#

3. , [...] X

4. , [...] X

column 2

1. , X [...]

2. , NUN~a NU [...] X

3. , 1(N45) SZE~a

4. , BAR? DA~a?

5. , SAR~a SZU

6. , U4 U4 ABZU EN~a AN SZIDIM

7. , NIR~a MUSZEN U4

8. , 1(N45) SZE~a#

9. , [...]

column 3

1. , [...]

2. , EN~a#? [...] AB~a#

3. , 1(N45) SZE~a

4. , TU~b MUSZEN

5. , GI UDU~a 1(N57)

6. , U4 U4 AN ABZU NUN~a EN~a

7. , NU EN~a MUSZEN NUN~a U4

column 4

1. , NUN~a EN~a [...]

2. , 1(N45) SZE~a

3. , ME~a KISAL~b1 NI~b A

4. , U4 U4 ABZU# NUN~a SZIDIM X [...]

5. , EN~a X [...]

I am guessing this text is in ud.gal.nun, because it seems like there is enough info to tell whats going on, yet I can't make sense of it. Have any of you had any previous encounters with this text?

[lahtandim2]

I just saw this referenced in "Nonadministrative Documents from Archaic Ur and from Early Dynastic I–II Mesopotamia: A New Textual and Archaeological Analysis" JCS 69 and they agree its impossible to understand anything. However they also note : " Recently, Michalowski (forthcoming) has interpreted this text as a step in the scholarly endeavor to adapt writing, mostly assigned to administrative texts or lexical lists, to more complex types of texts consisting of sentences and of a kind of narrative pattern."