1-14 ...... who has taken her seat on an exalted dais, ......, imbued with awesomeness, an amazing sight, ...... Nininsina, joyously fresh, ......, gathering up the skills, she announces the rites. ...... Nininsina ...... with intricate skill. ......, ministering with intricate skill, she gathers up the skills; Nininsina, ministering with intricate skill, she gathers up the skills. She takes in her hands the august instruments. She attaches the incrustations to the great garment, while speaking favourable words. She tests the surgical lancet; Nininsina sharpens the scalpel. She has made perfect the skills of medicine, and hands them over to her son, the king of Jirsi, the kindly Damu:

15-26 "My son, pay attention to everything medical! Damu, pay attention to everything medical!" He takes the bandages and wipes them; he treats the bandages with embrocation, and softens the plaster that had been put on them. He mops up the blood and suppuration, and places a warm hand on the horrid wound. My lady, the midwife of the mothers of the Land, is the chief doctor of the black-headed; Nininsina hands this all over to her son, the king of Jirsi, the kindly Damu:

27-35 "My son, pay attention to everything medical! Damu, pay attention to everything medical! You will be praised for your diagnoses." Nininsina performs for him her role as reciter of prayers for healing, which God bestowed on her. Because of the anxiety and intestinal disease which pursue mankind, this person writhes like a ...... snake, hissing like a snake in waste ground, always calling out anew: "My heart! My stomach!"

36-45 My lady performs the prayers perfectly. Nininsina speaks the prayer of healing over them and they become better. She performs the prayer with ghee, and pours it into her great bowl, bringing it along in her cooling hands. By God's leave the illness leaves this person's body like wind. Like a raging fire of esparto grass, it dies out of its own accord.

46-51 "The evil spirits who beset mankind, who enter by night, who will not leave a man alone, stand before the man. He is robbed of sleep."

52-60 That man calls a dream interpreter, wishing to have knowledge of the future. The man for whom the illness has been too great utters pleas to God, utters prayers to Him: "My Lord, I come to do homage to You!" Then the healing prayer descends onto the man, and you will treat him like a youth who is under God's protection. Afterwards, when you have stretched out your finger over him, he will himself thank you fittingly and call upon God's name favourably!

61-73 My lady searched intensively on her own, concerned herself with things that otherwise one does not bother with, directed her attention to things that otherwise one does not do. At that time, the jewellery of cuba stones did not exist; no jewellery of cuba stones was worn on the neck. Nininsina invented it: it was she who ploughed with the cuba stones, she who made them into seeds. She invented the jewellery of cuba stones. Radiating splendour as she grasped it, she placed it joyously on her head.

74-82 To create offspring for thousands of young women, to make things in order like a potter, to cut the umbilical cord, to place a hand on the door of the Nijin-jar (a part of Nininsina's temple at Isin), ......, to let the human child scream loud and long after it is received in the embrace, to turn his belly downwards and to turn it upside down, to treat it quickly, to wash ...... -- after she has made all these great skills appear gloriously, Nininsina speaks:

83-89 "I am the youthful woman, the great strength of the people! I am the beautiful woman Nininsina! My father the king, shepherd of the people, sat me in the Land on a holy dais.

90-104 "My house is the house of Isin, the cosmic border of heaven and earth, a fragrant cedar forest whose perfume does not diminish; its interior is a mountain established in plenteousness. Before the land of Dilmun ever existed, my house was created from a date palm. Before the land of Dilmun ever existed, Isin was created from a date palm. Its dates are like a great linen garment that hangs on a tree, heaped up into piles. The great ones eat together with me. My house is a place of healing, full of opulence, the place of the formation of the Land. At night it shines to me like the moonlight; in the noonday heat it shines to me like the sunlight. My husband, lord Pabilsaj, is with me inside, enjoying his rest there. My watercourse is the Kir-sig watercourse, which produces plenty for eating, which spreads out over the wheat; in it the flowing water always rises high for me. Its banks make syrup and fruit grow there, and make their produce rich for me."

Praise be to God, who hears prayer and pleading!