ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: UR
Values: teš₂, ur

Enmerkar and En-suḫgir-ana (c.1.8.2.4), line c1824.A.133

iri-ĝu₁₀	dul	ḫe₂-a	ĝe₂₆-e	šika-bi	ḫe₂-me-en
iri	dul	me	ĝe₂₆	šika	me
town	to cover (together)	to be	I	(pot)sherd	to be

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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