ETCSLglossingSignSign name: BALAG
Values: balag̃, bulug̃5

The lament for Sumer and Urim (c.2.2.3), line c223.C.271
niĝ2-gur11-ra-ni-taba-da-u5kur-še3ba-ĝen
NIĝ2-GUR11-RA-NI-TABA-DA-HU.SI (U5)KUR-šE3BA-ĝEN
niĝ2-gur11u5kurĝen
possessionsto ride(mountain) landto go
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Paragraph t223.p34 (line(s) 271-280) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
She rode away from her possessions, she went to the mountains. She loudly sang out a lament over those untravelled mountains: "I am queen, but I shall have to ride away from my possessions, and now I shall be a slave in those parts. I shall have to ride away from my silver and lapis lazuli, and now I shall be a slave in those parts. There, slavery, …… people, who can …… it? There, slavery, Elam ……, who can …… it? Alas, the destroyed city, my destroyed house," she cried bitterly. My queen, though not the enemy, went to enemy land. Ama-ušumgal-ana …… Kisiga. Like a city …….
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary

Sumerian scribe

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