ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: A.KAL
Values: illu

The lament for Unug (c.2.2.5), line c225.D.B.14

amaš	^lu₂sipad	zid-de₃	du₃-du₃-a	re	ni₂-bi-a	ba-an-bur₁₂-bur₁₂
amaš	sipad	zid	du₃	re	ni₂-bi	bur₁₂
sheepfold	shepherd	right	to erect	that	itself, themselves	to tear out

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Paragraph t225.p9 (line(s) 10-20) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

He consoled himself with tears and laments -- the city trembled. A defiled hand smote him and flattened his skull -- the city collapsed. The fearsome radiance overwhelmed like ……. The proud city of all the lands became like one who spreads havoc. The faithful cowherds themselves overturned every single cattlepen. The chief shepherds themselves burned (?) every sheepfold. They built them up like grain heaps, they spread them out like grain piles, they were convulsed. …… they drenched the fields with water, they turned the city into a swamp. They did all that. Like reeds in a wasteland, life could not be revived. They brought ruination. Evil things menaced (?) the city. A hush settled over the awed hearts of its people like a cloak.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary