ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GIG
Values: gi₁₇, gig, sim_x

An elegy on the death of Nannaya (c.5.5.2), line c552.9

tur₅-ra	u₂	nu-gu₇	gaba	ba-ri	tur₅-ra	ba-an-dab₅
TUR₅-RA	U₂	NU-GU₇	GABA	BA-RI	TUR₅-RA	BA-AN-DAB₅
tur₅	u₂	gu₇	gaba	ri	tur₅	dab₅
to be ill	plant	to eat	chest	to direct	to be ill	to seize

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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