ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: NU₁₁.BUR
Values: buru₄

Inana's descent to the nether world (c.1.4.1), line c141.190

a-a	<sup>d</sup>en-lil<sub>2</sub>	lipic	bal-a-ni	<sup>d</sup>nin-cubur-ra-ke<sub>4</sub>	mu-na-ni-ib-gi<sub>4</sub>-gi<sub>4</sub>
a-a	en-lil₂	lipic	bal	nin-cubur	gi₄
father	Enlil (DN)	inner body	to turn over	Nincubur (DN)	to return

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Paragraph t141.p34 (line(s) 190-194) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

In his rage Father Enlil answered Nincubur: "My daughter craved the great heaven and she craved the great below as well. Inana craved the great heaven and she craved the great below as well. The divine powers of the underworld are divine powers which should not be craved, for whoever gets them must remain in the underworld. Who, having got to that place, could then expect to come up again?"

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary