ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GA₂×TAK₄ (DAN₃ and GA₂×KID₂)
Values: dan₃

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.23

u₂	teš₂-a-ka	šag₄	ab-sed₄-de₃	nam-tag-ga	al-du₈-e
u₂	teš₂	šag₄	sed₄	nam-tag	du₈
plant	pride	heart	to be cold	sin	to spread

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Paragraph t513.p5 (line(s) 21-26) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"And another thing: you will never return to your blinkered vision; that would be greatly to demean due deference, the decency of mankind. Worthy plants calm the heart, and sins are absolved. An empty-handed man's gifts are respected as such. Even a poor man clutches a kid to his chest as he kneels. You should defer to the powers that be and …… -- that will calm you."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary