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Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)
The men (?) started irrigation work (?) on the watercourses, xx the watercourses xx (1 ms. has instead:) and dug and cleaned them out thoroughly . These bandits and brigands applied their hoes to levelling the desert completely. As for their men and their women (1 ms. adds:) xx the road (?) xx : the man among them goes wherever he pleases, the woman among them (1 ms. has instead:) the woman , holding a spindle and hair clasp in her hand, goes (?) (1 ms. has instead:) xx (1 other ms. has instead:) going the way of her choice. In the vastness of the desert they set up (1 ms. has instead:) they knock up animal pens, and after setting up their tents and camps (1 ms. has instead:) they lie in (?) green meadows in their (?) tents and camps , their workers and agricultural labourers spend the day together on the fields.