ETCSLglossing | Sign name: KAD4 Values: kad4, kam3, peš5 |
ki | mu | nu-gub-bu-ba-am3 | mu | diĝir-re-e-ne | ga-bi2-ib-gub |
KI | MU | NU-GUB-BU-BA-AM3 | MU | DIĝIR-RE-E-NE | GA-BI2-IB-GUB |
ki | mu | gub | mu | diĝir | gub |
place | name | to stand | name | deity | to stand |
"Utu, I have something to say to you -- a word in your ear! I greet you -- please pay attention! In my city people are dying, and hearts are full of distress. People are lost -- that fills me with { (1 ms. adds:) wretched } dismay. I craned my neck over the city wall: corpses in the water make the river almost overflow. That is what I see. That will happen to me too -- that is the way things go. No one is tall enough to reach heaven; no one can reach wide enough to stretch over the mountains. Since a man cannot pass beyond the final end of life, I want to set off into the mountains, to establish my renown there. Where renown can be established there, I will establish my renown; and where no renown can be established there, I shall establish the renown of the gods." |
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary |
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