ETCSLglossingSignSignSign name: ZA.NIM
Values: nir3

A hymn to Inana for Išme-Dagan (Išme-Dagan K) (c.2.5.4.11), line c25411.8
ub-da4-bašu-niĝal2-lenam-ningal-biak
UB-DA4-BAŠU-NIĝAL2-LENAM-NINGAL-BIAK
ub4šuĝal2nam-ningalak
corner4handto be (located)ladyshipto be bigto do
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Paragraph t25411.p2 (line(s) 7-18) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
Holy Inana was endowed by Enlil and Ninlil with the capacity to make the heavens shake, to make the earth tremble, to hold the four directions in her hand and to act grandly as their lady, to shout with wide open mouth in battle and combat and to wreak carnage (?), to butt all at once valiantly (?) like a wild bull, to make the earth drink the blood of enemies like water and to pile up their bodies, to take captive their overwhelmed (?) troops and to make them serve, to make the people ascend from below to above, to make the { foreign } { (1 ms. has instead:) numerous } people change their place, and to turn light to darkness and darkness to light. They made her without rival in heaven and on earth. They bestowed on her the power to establish a woman's domain in ……. They detemined as her fate to ……, to make them content together.
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