ETCSLglossingSignSign name: ŠA
Values: en8, ša
The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.24
mušen-eku6engur-ra-ke4...-bi-tami-ni-ib-ḫu-luḫ
mušenku6engur...ḫuluḫ
birdfishsubterranean water...to be frightened
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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:
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