ETCSLglossingSignSign name: BU
Values: bu, bur12, dur7, gid2, kim3, pu, sir2, su13, sud4, tur8
The building of Ninĝirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.1016
i3burbabbar2-ranaĝaE2.NUN-na-da
i3burbabbarnaĝaE2.NUN
fatty substancetype of bowlwhitepotashmeaning unknown
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Paragraph t217.p116 (line(s) 1015-1023) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
With his divine duties, namely to clean with water; to clean with soap; to …… with oil from white bowls and with (?) soap; to urge him to sweet sleep on his bed strewn with fresh herbs; to let him enter the E-duga, his bed chamber, from outside (?) and to make him not wish to leave it, Gudea introduced Kinda-zid, the man in charge of the E-duga, to Lord Ninĝirsu.
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
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