ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: EN.ME.LI
Values: ensi

Letter from Aradĝu (?) to Šulgi about bandits and Apillaša (c.3.1.11), line c3111.4

munus-bi	munus-e	^ĝišbal	^ĝiškirid-da	šu	ba-e-si-ig	ḫar-ra-an	šag₄-ga-na	i₃-DU	tab-be₂-X	du-u₃-de₃
munus	munus	bal	kirid	šu	sig₉	ḫar-ra-an	šag₄	DU	tab	ĝen
woman	woman	spindle	hair clasp	hand	to put	route	heart	DU	to be parallel	to go

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The men (?) started irrigation work (?) on the watercourses, { …… the watercourses …… } { (1 ms. has instead:) and dug and cleaned them out thoroughly }. These bandits and brigands applied their hoes to levelling the desert completely. As for their men and their women { (1 ms. adds:) …… the road (?) …… }: the man among them goes wherever he pleases, { the woman among them } { (1 ms. has instead:) the woman }, holding a spindle and hair clasp in her hand, { goes (?) } { (1 ms. has instead:) …… } { (1 other ms. has instead:) going } the way of her choice. In the vastness of the desert { they set up } { (1 ms. has instead:) they knock up } animal pens, and { after setting up their tents and camps } { (1 ms. has instead:) they lie in (?) green meadows in their (?) tents and camps }, their workers and agricultural labourers spend the day together on the fields.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary