ETCSLglossingSignSign name: KAL
Values: alad2, esi, g̃uruš, kal, kalag, lamma, rib, sun7, zi8

The death of Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma A) (c.2.4.1.1), line c2411.1.28
edin-edin-eu2sag9-ganu-mu-un-mu2u2-a-nirba-an-mu2
edinu2sag9mu2u2-a-nirmu2
open countryplantto be goodto growmourning plantto grow
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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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