ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: KU
Values: bid₃, bu₇, dab₅, dib₂, dur₂, duru₂, durun, gu₅, ku, nu₁₀, suḫ₅, še₁₀, tukul, tuš, ugu₄

The building of Ninĝirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.683

ĝiš-kan₄	an-na-bi	e₂-ninnu	ud	gu₃-ba	gu₃	di	teš₂-ba	gub-ba-am₃
ĝiš-kan₄-na	an	e₂-ninnu	ud	gu₃	gu₃	dug₄	teš₂	gub
doorframe	heaven	E-ninnu (TN)	storm	voice	voice	to say	unity	to stand

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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