ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GIŠ%GIŠ.NUN
Values: buranun_x

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.24

lu₂	šu	sug₄-ga-ka	kadra-ni	ur₅-še₃	nir	mu-un-ĝal₂
LU₂	ŠU	SUG₄-GA-KA	GAR.ŠA₃.A (NIG₂.ŠA₃.A)-NI	UR₅-šE₃	NIR	MU-UN-ĝAL₂
lu₂	šu	sug₄	kadra	ur₅	nir	ĝal₂
person	hand	to be empty	greeting gift	that	authority	to be (located)

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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