ETCSLglossingSignSign name: NE
Values: bar7, be7, bi2, bil, de3, du17, gibil4, izi, kum2, lam2, lem4, li9, ne, ni5, pel, pil, saḫarx, šeg̃6
The death of Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma A) (c.2.4.1.1), line c2411.1.27
umuš(...)kalam-mau2-guim-ma-an-de2u2nir-ĝal2ba-sug4
umuš(...)kalamu2-gude2u2nir-ĝal2sug4
(fore)thought(...)the Landnoun part of multiword verbto pourplantauthoritativeto be empty
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Paragraph t2411.p4 (line(s) 22-30) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
As the early flood was filling the canals, their canal-inspector was already silenced (?); the mottled barley grown on the arable lands, the life of the land, was inundated. To the farmer, the fertile fields planted (?) by him yielded little. Enkimdu, the lord of levees and ditches, took away the levees and ditches from Urim. (1 line fragmentary)As the intelligence and …… of the Land were lost, fine food became scarce. The plains did not grow lush grass any more, they grew the grass of mourning. The cows ……, their …… cattle-pen has been destroyed. The calves …… their cows bleated bitterly.
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