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As a wannabe Assyriologist, I was really hoping there'd be an actual line by line translation; or better yet, a link to one of the online cuneiform sites offere

As a wannabe Assyriologist, I was really hoping there'd be an actual line by line translation; or better yet, a link to one of the online cuneiform sites offered the cuneiform, transliteration and translation.

microtherion 7y ago
Probably something along the lines of: Hush, little baby, don't cry a storm Daddy's gonna read you a cuneiform And if that cuneiform should crack Daddy's gonna buy you a ziggurat…
mcguire 7y ago
May not be the same text, but ETCSL has "A lullaby for a son of Šulgi (Šulgi N)": http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.4.2.14&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc# http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.4.2.... http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.2.4.2.14# http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.2.4.2....