ETCSLglossingSignSign name: ḪAgunu (GIR)
Values: biš, gir, peš
The debate between Hoe and Plough (c.5.3.1), line c531.54
ĝišala-šag4-gasaĝ-biimĝar-ra
ĝIš-ALA-šAG4-GASAĝ-BIIMĝAR-RA
ala-šag4saĝimĝar
hoefieldheadclayto place
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Paragraph t531.p6 (line(s) 52-56) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
"Hoe, digging miserably, weeding miserably with your teeth; Hoe, burrowing in the mud; Hoe, putting its head in the mud of the fields, spending your days with the brick-moulds in mud with nobody cleaning you, digging wells, digging ditches, digging ……!"
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