ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GA₂×ME+EN (MEN)
Values: dan₂, men

Ninĝišzida's journey to the nether world (c.1.7.3), line c173.34

^ĝišĝišnimbar-gin₇	zu₂-lum	il₂-la-ĝu₁₀	ḫi-li-bi	nu-ma-ra-KA
ĝišnimbar	zu₂-lum	il₂	ḫi-li	KA
date palm	date	to raise	attractiveness	KA

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Paragraph t173.p7 (line(s) 29-37) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"The river of the nether world produces no water, no water is drunk from it. { (1 ms. adds:) Why should you sail? } The fields of the nether world produce no grain, no flour is eaten from it. { (1 ms. adds:) Why should you sail? } The sheep of the nether world produce no wool, no cloth is woven from it. { (1 ms. adds:) Why should you sail? } As for me, even if my mother digs as if for a canal, I shall not be able to drink the water meant for me. The waters of springtime will not be poured for me as they are for the tamarisks; I shall not sit in the shade intended for me. The dates I should bear like a date palm will not reveal (?) their beauty for me. I am a field threshed by my demon -- you would scream at it. He has put manacles on my hands -- you would scream at it. He has put a neck-stock on my neck -- you would scream at it."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary