ETCSLglossingSignSign name: ḪAL
Values: ḫal

Dumuzid's dream (c.1.4.3), line c143.216
ĝa2-nam-ma-an-ze2-ene2um-madbe-li-li-še3ga-an-ši-re7-de3-en
ĝene2um-mabe-li-liĝen
to gohouse(hold)experienced womanBelili (DN)to go
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Paragraph t143.p27 (line(s) 213-226) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
"Unless the old woman is aware of Dumuzid's whereabouts, she is indeed looking frightened! She is indeed screaming in a frightened way! Come, let us go to the house of Old Woman Belili!" They caught Dumuzid at the house of Old Woman Belili. The men surrounded him and drained the standing waters. They twisted a cord for him, they knotted a net for him. They wove a reed hawser for him, they cut sticks for him, the one in front of him threw missiles at him, the one behind him ……. His hands were bound in handcuffs, his arms were bound in fetters. The lad raised his hands heavenward to Utu:
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