ETCSLglossing | Sign name: KI.E.NE.DI Values: ešemen |
a | uru2 | ḫul-a-me | šir3-re-eš | ba-ab-be2-ne |
A | URU2 | IGI.UR (HUL)-A-ME | šIR3-RE-Eš | BA-AB-BE2-NE |
a | iri (ES: uru2) | ḫul | šir3 | dug4 |
soothing expression | town | to be bad | song | to say |
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. |
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary |
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