ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: AB₂
Values: ab₂

The building of Ninĝirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.675

e₂	ĝiš	ĝar-ra-bi	a-ĝi₆	ambar	maḫ	muš	a	sig-ga-am₃
e₂	ĝiš	ĝar	a-ĝi₆	ambar	maḫ	muš	a	sig
house(hold)	tree	to place	flooding	marsh	to be majestic	snake	water	to be low

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Paragraph t217.p81 (line(s) 673-687) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The built-in door-sockets of the house are laḫama deities standing by the abzu. Its timber store (?) looks like waves (?) of an enormous lagoon where snakes have dived (?) into the water. Its …… is …… full of fearsomeness. Its …… is a light floating in the midst of heaven. On the Gate where the King Enters an eagle is raising its eyes toward a wild bull. Its curved wooden posts joining above the gate are a rainbow stretching over the sky. Its upper lintel of the gate like (?) the E-ninnu stands among rumbling, roaring storms. Its awe-inspiring eyebrow-shaped arch (?) meets the admiring eyes of the gods. His white dais …… of the house is a firmly founded lapis lazuli mountain connecting heaven and earth.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary