ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: KA×MI
Values: kana₅

An elegy on the death of Nannaya (c.5.5.2), line c552.52

er₂	im-ĝa₂-ĝa₂-a-ni	er₂	arḫuš	X	X-am₃
er₂	ĝar	er₂	arḫuš	X	X
tear	to place	tear	compassion	X	X

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Paragraph t552.p8 (line(s) 47-55) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"Your sons who were treated (?) like king's sons, what do they (?) eat ……, what do they (?) drink ……? They (?) …… honey and ghee. They load the table with (?) oil for you. The tears which they shed for him are tears of compassion. Their mourning (?) for him is that of loving and pure-hearted ones. They are bent over like over-ripe grain. The fledglings return ……, raise ……."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary