ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: LA
Values: la, šika

The death of Gilgameš (c.1.8.1.3), line c1813.3.H.21

ki-maḫ-bi	na₄	ba-da-an-du
ki-maḫ	na₄	du₃
grave	stone	to erect

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Paragraph t1813.p43 (line(s) 10-32) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The lord imposed a levy on his city. The herald made the horn signal sound in all the lands: "Unug, arise! Open up the Euphrates! Kulaba, arise! Divert the waters of the Euphrates!" Unug's levy was a flood, Kulaba's levy was a clouded sky. Meanwhile not even the first month { had passed } { (1 ms. has instead:) …… }, it was not five or 10 days before they had opened up the Euphrates and diverted its high water. Utu looked at its shells with admiration. Then as soon as the water in the bed of the Euphrates had receded, his tomb was built there from stone. Its walls were built from stone. Its door leaves were installed in the sockets (?) of the entrance. Its bolt and thresholds were hard stone. Its door-pivots were hard stone. They installed its gold beams. Heavy blocks of stone were moved to ……. …… { was completely covered with a thick layer of } { (1 ms. has instead:) was completely covered (?) with } dark soil. …… for future days. (1 line fragmentary)…… who are searching for it should not find its precinct (?). He set up a solid house in the middle of Unug.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary