ETCSLglossingSignSign name: NINDA2
Values: inda, ninda2

Enlil and Sud (c.1.2.2), line c122.2.B.5
X-nimi-ni-in-dab5da-ru-ru3-maḫ-a-še3mi-ni-in-...
Xdab5a-ru-ru3-maḫ...
Xto seizeAruru (DN)Eš-maḫ (TN)...
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Aruru grasped her …… and …… her away into the Eš-maḫ. She brought her into the shining E-kur, and poured the best perfume over her face. In the sleeping quarters, in the flowered bed fragrant like a cedar forest, Enlil made (?) love to his wife and took great pleasure in it. He sat her (?) on his dais appropriate to the status of Enlil, and made the people pray to her. The lord whose statements are powerful also determined a fate for the Lady (Aruru), the woman of his favour; he gave her the name Nintur, the 'Lady who gives birth', the 'Lady who spreads her knees'. He made beautiful En-batibira's (perhaps a name of Aruru) countenance, ……. He presented her with the …… of a mistress, everything pertaining to women that no man must see, and …….
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