Note 821 — Chapter VIII · THE SACRIFICE
Beatrice M. Hinkle translation
There comes from the library of Asurbanipal an interesting Sumeric-Assyrian fragment (Cuneiform Inscr., I, IV, 26, 6. Quoted by Gressmann: “Altorient. Text. und Bild.,” I, p. 101):
“To the wise man he said:
A lamb is the substitute for a man.
He gives a lamb for his life,
He gives the heads of lambs for the heads of men,” etc.