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Sign name: DAG.KISIM₅×GIR₂ (KIŠI₈)
Values: kiši₈

The lament for Sumer and Urim (c.2.2.3), line c223.G.405

elam^ki-e	a	maḫ	e₃-a-gin₇	gidim	im-ma-ni-ib₂-ĝar
elam	a	maḫ	e₃	gidim	ĝar
Elam (GN)	water	to be majestic	to go out or in	ghost	to place

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Paragraph t223.p50 (line(s) 403-410) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The people took refuge (?) behind the city walls. They were united in fear. { The palace that was destroyed by onrushing water was defiled, its doorbolts were torn out }{ (1 ms. has instead:) At its main gate the bolts were opened, the storm disloged its door }. Elam, like a swelling flood wave, left (?) only the ghosts. In Urim weapons smashed heads like clay pots. Its refugees were unable to flee, they were trapped inside the walls. { (1 ms. adds 3 lines:) Like fish living in a pond, they tried to escape. The enemy seized the E-kiš-nu-ĝal of Nanna. They ripped out its heavy ……. } The statues that were in the shrine were cut down. The great stewardess Ninigara ran away from the storehouse. Its throne was cast down before it, she threw herself down into the dust.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary