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ETCSLglossing

Sign name: SAG×ŠID (DILIB₃)
Values: dilib₃

Inana's descent to the nether world (c.1.4.1), line c141.191

dumu-ĝu₁₀	an	gal	al	bi₂-in-dug₄	ki	gal	al	bi₂-in-dug₄
dumu	an	gal	al	dug₄	ki	gal	al	dug₄
child	heaven	to be big	desire	to say	place	to be big	desire	to say
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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