ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: FOUR.DIŠ.VAR (LIMMU)
Values: limmu

The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.28

ku₆-e	mušen-ra	bir-ra-bi	inim	mu-na-ni-ib₂-be₂
KU₆-E	MUšEN-RA	BIR-RA-BI	INIM	MU-NA-NI-IB₂-BE₂
ku₆	mušen	bir	inim	dug₄
fish	bird	to scatter	word	to say

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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