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21 ديسمبر 2017

تاريخ قصير من نهاية العالم وبلاد ما بين النهرين، مرثاة أور


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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