ETCSLglossingSignSignSignSignSign name: U2.KI.SUM.GA
Values: gud3
Proverbs: collection 2 + 6 (c.6.1.02), line c6102.A.2.54.95
šidimpe-el-la2im-BU-BU-kam
šIDIMPE-EL-LA2IM-BU-BU-KAM
šidimpe-elim-BU-BU
builderto defilehod carrier
Click on a lemma to search the ePSD. Hide sign names.

Paragraph t6102.p54 (line(s) 89-95) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
(cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 267 ll. 5-7)A disgraced scribe becomes an incantation priest. A disgraced singer becomes a flute-player. A disgraced lamentation priest becomes a piper. A disgraced merchant becomes a con-man. A disgraced carpenter becomes a man of the spindle. A disgraced smith becomes a man of the sickle. A disgraced mason becomes a hod-carrier.
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

© Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 The ETCSL project, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Updated 2006-10-09 by JE

 University of Oxford