ETCSLglossingSignSign name: SUD2
Values: sud2, šita3

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B) (c.2.4.2.02), line c24202.165
ĝišur-za-ba-bi2-tumĝišḫar-ḫarĝišza-na-ru
ĝIš-UR-ZA-BA-BI2-TUMĝIš-ḫAR-ḫARĝIš-ZA-NA-RU
ur-za-ba-bi2-tumḫar-ḫarza-na-ru
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Paragraph t24202.p14 (line(s) 154-174) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
I, Šulgi, king of Urim, have also devoted myself to the art of music. Nothing is too complicated for me; I know the full extent of the tigi and the adab, the perfection of the art of music. When I fix the frets on the lute, which enraptures my heart, I never damage its neck; I have devised rules for raising and lowering its intervals. On the gu-uš lyre I know the melodious tuning. I am familiar with the sa-eš and with drumming on its musical soundbox. I can take in my hands the miritum, which ……. I know the finger technique of the alĝar and sabitum, royal creations. In the same way I can produce sounds from the urzababitum, the ḫarḫar, the zanaru, the ur-gula and the dim-lu-magura. Even if they bring to me, as one might to a skilled musician, a musical instrument that I have not heard before, when I strike it up I make its true sound known; I am able to handle it just like something that has been in my hands before. Tuning, stringing, unstringing and fastening are not beyond my skills. I do not make the reed pipe sound like a rustic pipe, and on my own initiative I can wail a šumunša or make a lament as well as anyone who does it regularly.
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