ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: EŠ₂.MAḪ
Values: ebiḫ₂

Inana's descent to the nether world (c.1.4.1), line c141.190

a-a	<sup>d</sup>en-lil<sub>2</sub>	lipiš	bal-a-ni	<sup>d</sup>nin-šubur-ra-ke<sub>4</sub>	mu-na-ni-ib-gi<sub>4</sub>-gi<sub>4</sub>
a-a	en-lil₂	lipiš	bal	nin-šubur	gi₄
father	Enlil (DN)	inner body	to turn over	Ninšubur (DN)	to return

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Paragraph t141.p34 (line(s) 190-194) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

In his rage Father Enlil answered Ninšubur: "My daughter craved the great heaven and she craved the great below as well. Inana craved the great heaven and she craved the great below as well. The divine powers of the underworld are divine powers which should not be craved, for whoever gets them must remain in the underworld. Who, having got to that place, could then expect to come up again?"

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary