ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GI%GI (GIL)
Values: gel, gi₁₆, gib, gil, gilim

The message of Lu-diĝira to his mother (c.5.5.1), line c551.49

gigir	šim-li	^ĝišmar-šum	^ĝištaškarin
gigir	šim-li	mar-šum	taškarin
chariot	juniper	sedan chair	box tree

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Paragraph t551.p6 (line(s) 47-52) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

Let me give you a fifth description of my mother: My mother is a palm-tree, with the sweetest fragrance. She is a chariot of juniper wood, a sedan chair of boxwood. She is { a fine cloth } { (1 ms. has instead:) a good …… } perfumed with refined oil. She is a bunch of grapes, a garland (?) { growing luxuriantly } { (1 ms. has instead:) perfect in luxuriant growth }. { She } { (1 ms. has instead:) My mother } is a phial made from an ostrich egg, { overflowing } { (1 ms. has instead:) full } with { finest } { (1 ms. has instead:) perfumed } oil. { (1 ms. adds:) She is a fair woman, accompanied by a protective goddess ……. She is a woman who will show you compassion like (?) Aruru, …… born ……. }

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary