ETCSLglossingSignSign name: URU×BAR (UKKIN)
Values: unken
The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.29
dub-sarumun2aksun5-na-biugula-a-nimu-un-na-ni-ib-gi4-gi4
dub-sarumun2aksun5ugulagi4
scribeknowledge sourceto doto be humbleoverseerto return
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Paragraph t513.p7 (line(s) 29-35) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
The learned scribe humbly answered his supervisor: "I shall give you a response to what you have just recited like a magic spell, and a rebuttal to your charming ditty delivered in a bellow. Do not make me out to be an ignoramus -- I will answer you once and for all! You opened my eyes like a puppy's and you made me into a human being. But why do you go on outlining rules for me as if I were a shirker? Anyone hearing your words would feel insulted!"
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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