ETCSLglossing | Sign name: ZA.MUŠ3.DI Values: ḫalba2, sed8 |
emeda-ga-la2-zu | dumu | ga | gu7 | maḫ-bi | in-ga-an-zu |
UM.ME-GA-LA2-ZU | DUMU | GA | GU7 | MAḫ-BI | IN-GA-AN-ZU |
emeda-ga-la2 | dumu | ga | gu7 | maḫ | zu |
wet nurse | child | milk | to eat | to be majestic | to know |
{ Enkidu replied to Gilgameš } { (2 mss. have instead:) His slave Enkidu replied }: "Come on now, you heroic bearer of a sceptre of wide-ranging power! Noble glory of the gods, angry bull standing ready for a fight! Young Lord Gilgameš, cherished in Unug, your mother knew well how to bear sons, and your nurse knew well how to nourish children! -- One so exalted and yet so lacking in { understanding } { (1 ms. has instead:) judgment } will be devoured by fate without him ever understanding that fate. The very idea that a captured bird should run away home, or a captured man should return to his mother's embrace! -- Then you yourself would never get back to the mother-city that bore you! { (1 ms. adds:) A captured warrior set free! A captured high priestess …… to the ĝipar! A captured gudug priest restored to his wig of hair! …… ever, ever ……? (2 lines fragmentary) …… his attention to his words ……. }" |
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