ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: KA×GAN₂tenu (PU₃ and KA×KAR₂)
Values: bu₃, kana₆, puzur₅

The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.22

ud-bi-a	ku₆-e	ambar-ra	nunuz	ki	ba-ni-in-tag
ud	ku₆	ambar	nunuz	ki	tag
day(light)	fish	marsh	egg	place	to touch

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Paragraph t535.p3 (line(s) 22-28) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

Then Fish laid its eggs in the lagoons; Bird built its nest in a gap in the reedbeds. But Bird frightened the Fish of the lagoons in its ……. Fish took up a stand and cried out. Grandiosely it initiated hostilities. It roused the street by quarrelling in an overbearing manner. Fish addressed Bird murderously:

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary