ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: ŠE.KAK (ŠE.GAG)
Values: ḫenbur₂

The heron and the turtle (c.5.9.2), line c592.A.85

sug	zu₂	keše₂-da	^den-ki-ka₃-ke₄	nunuz	ki	ḫa-ba-ni-ib-tag
sug	zu₂	keše₂	en-ki	nunuz	ki	tag
marsh	tooth	to bind	Enki (DN)	egg	place	to touch

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Paragraph t592.p10 (line(s) 79-89) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

{ It dug in the ground, …… its head upwards ……. } { (1 ms. has instead:) The heron ……, ……. } She (the heron) { (1 ms. adds:) entered the house and } cried out to King Enki: "My king, you gave me the wide reedbeds, and I laid eggs there. I laid eggs in the wide reedbeds of Tutub. I laid eggs in the marshes of Kiritaba. I laid eggs in the adara thickets of Akšak. I laid eggs in Enki's interconnecting (?) lagoons. I laid eggs in the smaller lagoon, the lagoon of Eridug. I laid eggs in Enki's barbar reeds. I laid eggs in the little zi reeds of Urim. I laid eggs in Urim, where cows and calves abound."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary