ETCSLglossing | Sign name: ḪUB2×UD (ḪUB) Values: tu10 |
sag9-ga | šag4-ge | šu | nu-bar-re |
SAG9-GA | šAG4-GE | ŠU | NU-BAR-RE |
sag9 | šag4 | šu | bar |
to be good | heart | hand | to set aside |
When you bring a slave girl from the hills, she brings both good and evil with her. The good is in the hands; the evil is in the heart. The heart does not let go of the good; but the heart cannot let go of the evil either. As if it were a watery place, the heart does not abandon the good. Evil is a storeroom ……. { (1 ms. adds:) (2 lines unclear) } May the boat with the evil sink in the river! May his waterskin split in the desert! |
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary |
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