Don't throw a steak, you're barbecuing, at the face of the Goddess of love. They'll be consequences. 12 beers, and 12 prostitutes, repeated for 12 nights, is t

Don't throw a steak, you're barbecuing, at the face of the Goddess of love. They'll be consequences. 12 beers, and 12 prostitutes, repeated for 12 nights, is the civilizing process. As Enkidu discovered and Gilgamesh already knew. Take the stairway of a bygone era, draw near to Eanna, the seat of Ishtar the goddess, that no later king could ever copy! Climb Uruk's wall and walk back and forth! Survey its foundations, examine the brickwork! Were its bricks not fired in an oven? Did the Seven Sages not lay its foundations? [A square mile is] city, [a square mile] date-grove, a square mile is clay-pit, half a square mile the temple of Ishtar: [three square miles] and a half is Uruk's expanse.