ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: U₂.NAGA
Values: uga_x

Inana and Šu-kale-tuda (c.1.3.3), line c133.66

nisig	ga-raš^sar-gin₇	sar-e	mu₂-a
nisig	ga-raš	sar	mu₂
greenery	leek	garden plot	to grow

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Paragraph t133.p6 (line(s) 59-71) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The raven paid exact attention to the instructions of his master. It chopped up (?) and chewed (?) the kohl for the incantation priests of Eridug with the oil and water which were to be found in a lapis-lazuli bowl and were placed in the back-room of the shrine. It planted them in a trench for leeks in a vegetable plot; then it pulled out (?) ……. A plant growing in a plot like leeks, an oddity { standing up } { (1 ms. has instead:) sticking up } like a leek stalk -- who had ever seen such a thing before? (1 line unclear)That a bird like the raven, performing the work of man, should make the counterweight blocks of the shadouf bump up and settle down; that it should make the counterweight blocks of the shadouf bump down and rise up -- who had ever seen such a thing before?

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary