ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: BUR
Values: bur

An elegy on the death of Nannaya (c.5.5.2), line c552.14

šag₄	sag₃-sag₃-ge	i-si-iš	SI	A	X
šAG₄	SAG₃-SAG₃-GE	I-SI-Iš	SI	A	X
šag₄	sag₃	i-si-iš	SI	A	X
heart	to beat	tears (of joy)	SI	A	X

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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.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary