ETCSLglossingSignSign name: ONE.BURU (BUR3gunu)
Values: BUR3gunu
The šumunda grass (c.1.7.7), line c177.35
imba-šeĝ3-ĝa2-bae2-ĝar8ba-gul-la-ba
IMBA-šEĝ3-ĝA2-BAE2-ĝAR8BA-GUL-LA-BA
imšeĝ3e2-ĝar8gul
rain(storm)to rainwallto destroy
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Paragraph t177.p6 (line(s) 35-49) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
When the rain had rained, when walls had been demolished, when it rained potsherds and fireballs, when Dumuzid was defied -- the rain rained, walls were demolished, the cowpen was demolished, the sheepfold was ripped out, wild flood-waters were hurled against the rivers, wild rains were hurled against the marshes. By (?) the …… of the Tigris and the Euphrates, of the Tigris and the Euphrates, long grass grew, long grass ……. (5 lines missing)
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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