A Short
History of the Apocalypse
Mesopotamia,
circa 2000 BCE
Orphans of Ur
O my flooded,
washed away
Brickwork of
Ur!
My good house,
my city,
you who have
been piled in heaps,
As I lay
myself down with you
in a breach in
your good ravaged house,
I shall, like
a fallen ox
never be able
to rise again.
– Anonymous, “Lamentation over the
destruction of Ur,” c. 2000 BCE, from Thorkild Jacobset, The Harps that Once…:
Sumerian Poetry in Translation, 447-8.
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