Editing Eridu (section)

==Lament for Eridu==
The fall of early Mesopotamia cities and empires was typically believed to be the result of falling out of favor with the gods. A genre called [[City Lament]]s developed during the [[Isin-Larsa period]], of which the [[Lament for Ur]] is the most famous. These laments had a number of sections (kirugu) of which only fragments have been recovered. The [[Lament for Eridu]] describes the fall of that city.<ref>Green, M. W., "The Eridu Lament.", JCS 30, pp. 127–67, 1978</ref><ref>Ilan Peled, "A New Manuscript of the Lament for Eridu", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 67, pp. 39–43,  2015 {{doi|10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0039}}</ref>
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|text="Its king stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city. He wept bitter tears. Father Enki stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city. He wept bitter tears. For the sake of his harmed city, he wept bitter tears. Its lady, like a flying bird, left her city. The mother of [[É (temple)|E-maḫ]], holy [[Damgalnuna]], left her city. The divine powers of the city of holiest divine powers were overturned. The divine powers of the rites of the greatest divine powers were altered. In Eridug everything was reduced to ruin, was wrought with confusion."<ref>[https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.2.2.6# The lament for Eridug ETSCL]</ref>
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