ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: EN×ME.LI (ENME.LI)
Values: ensi₃

Enmerkar and En-suḫgir-ana (c.1.8.2.4), line c1824.A.130

niĝ₂	gal-gal	en-me-er-kar₂-ra	kiĝ₂-gi₄-a-aš	mu-un-gi₄
NIĝ₂	GAL-GAL	EN-ME-ER-KAR₂-RA	KIĝ₂-GI₄-A-Aš	MU-UN-GI₄
niĝ₂	gal	en-me-er-kar₂	kiĝ₂-gi₄-a	gi₄
thing	to be big	Enmerkar (RN)	messenger	to return

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Paragraph t1824.p10 (line(s) 128-134) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The convened assembly answered him straightforwardly: "It was you who first sent a boastful (?) message to Unug for Enmerkar. You cannot hold back (?) Enmerkar, you have to hold back (?) yourself. Calm down; your heart will prompt you to achieve nothing, as far as can be known (?)." "If my city becomes a ruin mound, then I will be a potsherd of it, but I will never submit to the lord of Unug, the lord of Kulaba."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary