ETCSLglossingSignSign name: ŠIR
Values: aš7, šir
Gilgameš and the bull of heaven (c.1.8.1.2), line c1812.2.D.46
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gilgameš2ḫa-zi-in7gun2ugue-nesag3
Gilgameš (DN)type of axe7weight measure (load)skullhe, sheto beat
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Paragraph t1812.p33 (line(s) 45-48) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
When Enkidu had spoken thus to Gilgameš, Gilgameš himself smote its skull with his axe weighing seven talents. The Bull reared up so high, so high that it overbalanced. It spattered like rain, it spread itself out like the harvested crop.
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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