ETCSLglossingSignSignSignSign name: ZA.MUŠ3gunu.ABgunu (ZA.MUŠ2.UNUG)
Values: zabalam
The lament for Nibru (c.2.2.4), line c224.C.54
šir3gig-gaim-mešu-luḫzidḫa-lam-ma-še3
šir3gigdug4šu-luḫzidḫa-lam
songto be illto sayritual cleansingrightto be lost
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Paragraph t224.p9 (line(s) 53-61) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
The true temple gave you only tears and lamentation -- it sings a bitter song of the proper cleansing-rites that are forgotten! The brickwork of E-kur gave you only tears and lamentation -- it sings a bitter song of the proper cleansing-rites that are forgotten! It weeps bitter tears over the splendid rites and most precious plans which are desecrated -- its most sacred food rations neglected and …… into funeral offerings, it cries "Alas!". The temple despairs of its divine powers, utterly cleansed, pure, hallowed, which are now defiled! The true temple, which it is bitter to enter on one's own, passes the time renewing its tears.
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