ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GAM
Values: gam, gur2, gurum
The lament for Unug (c.2.2.5), line c225.A.A.19
zig3-gašu-baa-na-ašba-ni-ib-dab5igizida-na-aš...
zig3šua-na-ašdab5igizida-na-aš...
to risehandwhyto seizeeyerightwhy...
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Paragraph t225.p4 (line(s) 15-20) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
As its gigantic horns reached up to heaven, who trembled in his very core? As it was piled up over the mountains like a battle-net, who turned away? Who caused wailing and lamenting in those streets and ……? Unug, like a loyal citizen in terror, set up an alarm (and exclaimed) "Rise up!" Why did its hand seize Unug? Why did the benevolent eye look away? Who brought about such worry and lamenting and ……?
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