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Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)

Stretching out a hand to the barge, to the young man being steered away on the barge, stretching out a hand to my young man Damu (1 ms. has instead:) Lord Ninĝišzida being taken away on the barge, stretching out a hand to Ištaran of the bright visage being taken away on the barge, stretching out a hand to Alla, master of the battle-net, being taken away on the barge, stretching out a hand to Lugal-šud-e being taken away on the barge, stretching out a hand to Ninĝišzida being taken away on the barge -- his younger sister was crying in lament to him in the boat's cabin (1 ms. has instead:) the cabin at the boat's bow .