ETCSLglossingSignSign name: LAGAB
Values: ellag, girin, gur4, ḫab, kilib, kir3, lagab, lugud2, ni10, nig̃in2, rin
Gilgameš, Enkidu and the nether world (c.1.8.1.4), line c1814.1.249
Xšubi2-in-tag-gašag4-zuba-e-ḫul2
Xšutagšag4ḫul2
Xhandto touchheartto be happy
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Paragraph t1814.p20 (line(s) 243-253) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
They hugged and kissed. They wearied each other with questions: "Did you see the order of the nether world? -- If only you would tell me, my friend, if only you would tell me!" "If I tell you the order of the nether world, sit down and weep! I shall sit down and weep! ……, which your heart rejoiced to touch, is ……, worms infest it like an old garment (?); like …… of (?) a crevice, it is full of dust." "Alas!" he said and sat down in the dust.
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