ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: ANŠE.IGI.EŠ₂ (ANŠE.LIBIR)
Values: dusu₂

The debate between Copper and Silver (c.5.3.6), line c536.D.63

^urudḫa-bu₃-da	^ĝišal	ki	kalag-ga-ke₄	du₅-bi	dab₅-ba-a
URUD-ḫA-BU₃-DA	ĝIš-AL	KI	KALAG-GA-KE₄	DU₅-BI	DAB₅-BA-A
ḫa-bu₃-da	al	ki	kalag	dul₂	dab₅
hoe	hoe	place	to be strong	to lower	to seize

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Paragraph t536.p20 (line(s) 60-66) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"You have accumulated lies about my honourable station. Let me, the mouse, do his work -- his assigned task in the ground is noble. Your teeth dig the ground, your tongue (?) moves the dirt. The copper hoe has its digging taken over by the wooden hoe in the harder ground. The copper sickles need to have the hard weeds burned. The copper axes which chop trees, stripping and pulling out tamarisks and ash shrubs, have their blades dulled. The copper saws have to lie down for a rest beside the mountain trees."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary