ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GI
Values: ge, gen6, gi, ke2, ki2, sig17
The lament for Nibru (c.2.2.4), line c224.A.43
auru2ḫul-a-mešir3-re-ešba-ab-be2-ne
airi (ES: uru2)ḫulšir3dug4
soothing expressiontownto be badsongto say
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Paragraph t224.p5 (line(s) 42-49) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
The men whose wives had fallen, whose children had fallen, were singing "Oh our destroyed city!". Their city gone, their homes abandoned -- as those who were singing for the brick buildings of the good city, as the lamenters of wailing, like the foster-children of an ecstatic no longer knowing their own intelligence, the people were smitten, their minds thrown into disorder. The true temple wails bitterly.
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