"The messenger runs like a wild ram and flies like a falcon. He leaves in the morning and returns already at dusk, lik…"

"Kulaba, city which reaches from heaven to earth; Unug, whose fame like the rainbow reaches up to the sky, a multicolo…"

"At that time the day was lord, the night was sovereign, and Utu was king."

"He with the man born to be a god; he with a man manifest as a god."

"You have to hold back yourself. Calm down; your heart will prompt you to achieve nothing."

"If my city becomes a ruin mound, then I will be a potsherd of it, but I will never submit to the lord of Unug, the lo…"

"Sorcerer, you do have magical powers, but where is your sense? How on earth could you think of going to do sorcery at…"

"The Sumerian theologians, again no doubt taking their cue from the human world about them, adduced a significant meta…"

"Unable to stand up, unable to sit down, he laments. Unable to eat, unable to drink, he laments. Held fast by the door…"

"Sisig (a god of dreams), the son of Utu, will provide light for him in the nether world, the place of darkness. When …"