====== Your Heartbeat is My Reveille ======


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== Introduction ==

Excavated in Kish by de Genouillac in 1912, the most recent edition of this text is that of Joan Goodnick Westenholz (1987) in Fs. Reiner.

== Transliteration and translation ==
1'. [. . .] x ki ni# ''a-na-ku'' x [. . .]
:: . . . I . . .

2'. [''tu-ru-uk''] ''li#-bi-ka ni-gu-''[''tu/ta/ti'' . . .]
:: the beating of your heart is joyful music

3'. ''te-bi-ma lu-ur#-ta-ma-''[''ka-ma'']
:: stir yourself and let me make love with you

4'. ''i-nu-ut-li-ka ra?-ab?-bi''
:: in your soft lap

5'. ''szi mu-na-ma-ti''
:: of morning slumber

6'. ''da-du-ka# t,a3-a-bu''
:: your caresses are sweet

7'. ''mu-uh-x-ta-an-bu in-bu-ka''
:: growing luxuriantly is your fruit

8'. ''sza3 ka-na-ka-ti mu-ni-i ba-lu-ku-u2''
:: my bed of incense if ballukku-perfumed

9'. ''me-<a>-mu ri-szi-ni in-s,a-bu uz-ni-ni''
:: O by the crown of our head, the rings of our ears

10'. ''sza3-di-i bu-di-ni u3 la#-lu i-ir-ti-ni''
:: the mountains of our shoulders, and the charms of our chest

11'. ''si2-in-si2#-nu qa2#-ti-ni''
:: the bracelet with date spadix charms of our wrists

12'. ''hu-du-szu qa2-ab-li-ni''
:: the belt hung with (lapis-lazuli) frog charms of our waist

13'. ''bi-la-ma szu-me-li-ik lu-pi2-it-ma hu-ur-da-at-ni''
:: reach forth with your left hand and stroke our vulva

14'. ''me-li-il tu-li-i-ni''
:: play with our breasts

15'. [''er-ba ha-al'']''-la ap-ti''
:: enter, I have opened (my) thighs

16'. [. . .] x-ti


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