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An elegy on the death of Nannaya (c.5.5.2), line c552.10
kau3-ba-e-šu2nindanu-mu-un-šu2-šu2šag4-sug4-gaba-an-nu2
kašu2nindašu2šag4-sug4nu2
mouthto coverbreadto coveremptinessto lie down
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Paragraph t552.p3 (line(s) 9-15) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
He, not eating, was stricken with illness and was languishing away (?). Having closed his mouth, he ate no food and lay famished. According to a tablet ……. The warrior, a wanderer (?), did not move a foot. From (?) his sick …… he was consumed with wailing for his children. Heart anguished, overcome by wailing, the scholar died a violent death in Nibru.
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