ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GIR2
Values: g̃ir2, g̃iri2
Enmerkar and the lord of Aratta (c.1.8.2.3), line c1823.445
maḫarattakikugdinana-ke4
MAḫLAM.KUR.RU-KIKUGDIĝIR-INANA-KE4
maḫarattakuginana
to be majesticAratta (SN)shiningInana (DN)
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Paragraph t1823.p35 (line(s) 444-453) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
"Aratta is indeed like a slaughtered sheep! Its roads are inded like those of the rebel lands! Since holy Inana has given the primacy of Aratta to the lord of Kulaba, now it seems that holy Inana is looking with favour on her man who has sent a messenger to make the severe message as clear as the light of Utu. So in Aratta where can one go in this crisis? How long before the yoke-rope becomes bearable? As for us, in the direst hunger, in our direst famine, are we to prostrate ourselves before the lord of Kulaba?"
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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