ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: PAP.PAP (BULUG₃)
Values: bulug̃₃, dim₄

The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.19

ku₆	mušen-bi	ĝiš-gi	ambar-ra	im-mi-in-si
ku₆	mušen	ĝiš-gi	ambar	si
fish	bird	reedbed	marsh	to fill

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Paragraph t535.p2 (line(s) 13-21) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

…… Enki knit together the marshlands, making young and old reeds grow there; he made birds and fish live in the pools and lagoons ……; he gave …… all kinds of living creatures as their sustenance, …… placed them in charge of this abundance of the gods. When Nudimmud, august prince, the lord of broad wisdom, had fashioned ……, he filled the reedbeds and marshes with fish and birds, indicated to them their positions and instructed them in their divine rules.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary