1-8 - Royal courier, start the journey! I want to send you to Nibru -- deliver this message! You are going on a long journey. My mother is worried, she cannot sleep is too (?) to sleep . Although the way to her the closed woman's domain is blocked, deliver my letter of greeting into her hands, as she keeps asking and then she will not keep asking the travellers wayfarers about my well-being. Then my mother will be delighted, and will treat you most kindly (?) for it.

9-20 - In case you should not recognise my mother, let me describe her to you. Her name is Cat- Cimat- , by her words . Her body, face and limbs, and outer appearance are . She is the fair goddess of her city-quarter. Her fate has been decided since the days of her youth. Single-handed she keeps in order the house of her father-in-law. She serves humbly before her divine mistress. She knows how to look after Inana's place. She never disobeys the orders wishes of the king. She is energetic and causes possessions to multiply. She is loving, gentle, and lively. By nature she is a lamb, sweet butter, honey, flowing ghee.

21-31 - Let me give you another description of my mother: My mother is like the bright light in the sky on the horizon , a doe on the hillsides. She is the morning star, shining even at noon-time providing plenty of light . She is precious cornelian, a topaz from Marhaci. She is the jewellery of a king's brother, full of beauty. She is a cylinder seal of stone, an ornament like the sun a cornelian jewel, an ornamental drinking cup a cornelian , an ornament of stone a jewel, a beautiful drinking cup . She is a bracelet of tin, a ring of metal. She is a nugget of shining gold and silver, but which is living and draws breath and breathing place . She is an alabaster statuette of a protective goddess standing on a pedestal of lapis lazuli. She is a polished rod of ivory a living figurine (?) , with limbs full of beauty full of pleasure .

32-39 - Let me give you a third description of my mother: My mother is rain from heaven timely rain , water for the finest seeds. She is a bountiful harvest of fully-grown fine barley ripe, exceedingly fine barley heavenly ripe maturity (?) . She is a garden of delights , full of laughter filled with rejoicing . She is a well-irrigated pine tree, an adorned juniper adorned with pine-cones . She is early fruit, the products garden's yield of the first month. She is an irrigation ditch bringing fertilising water to the garden plots. She is a sweet Dilmun date, a prime date much sought after.

40-46 - Let me give you a fourth description of my mother: My mother fills the festivals and offerings with joy. She is an offering the festival , awesome (?) to look upon. She is the offspring, the child the daughter of the king, a song of abundance. She is a place of entertainment set up for delights. fruit abundance. She is a lover, a loving heart who never becomes sated with pleasure. She is the good news that the captive will return to his mother to celebrate .

47-52 - Let me give you a fifth description of my mother: My mother is a palm-tree, with the sweetest fragrance. She is a chariot of juniper wood, a sedan chair of boxwood. She is a fine cloth a good perfumed with refined oil. She is a bunch of grapes, a garland (?) growing luxuriantly perfect in luxuriant growth . She My mother is a phial made from an ostrich egg, overflowing full with finest perfumed oil. She is a fair woman, accompanied by a protective goddess . She is a woman who will show you compassion like (?) Aruru, born .

53-54 - When, thanks to the descriptions I have given you, you stand in her (?) radiant presence, tell her: 'Your beloved son Lu-digira is in good health.' The descriptions I have given you describe (?) her (?) appearance. A most fair woman accompanied by many protective goddesses, she is my mother. Pay attention, joyfully : 'Your beloved son Lu-digira is in good health ', tell her . ...