ETCSLglossingSignSign name: NUN/NUN (NIR)
Values: nir, ri5, šer7, tirx

Lugalbanda and the Anzud bird (c.1.8.2.2), line c1822.16
dnin-ka-situku-tukuama-rame-te-ĝal2
nin-ka-situkuamame-te-ĝal2
Ninkasi (DN)to havemotherseemly
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Paragraph t1822.p1 (line(s) 1-27) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
Lugalbanda lies idle in the mountains, in the faraway places; he has ventured into the Zabu mountains. No mother is with him to offer advice, no father is with him to talk to him. No one is with him whom he knows, whom he values, no confidant is there to talk to him. In his heart he speaks to himself: "I shall treat the bird as befits him, I shall treat Anzud as befits him. I shall greet his wife affectionately. I shall seat Anzud's wife and Anzud's child at a banquet. An will fetch Ninguena for me from her mountain home -- the expert woman who redounds to her mother's credit, Ninkasi the expert who redounds to her mother's credit. Her fermenting-vat is of green lapis lazuli, her beer cask is of refined silver and of gold. If she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness; as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving perfect. When the bird has drunk the beer and is happy, when Anzud has drunk the beer and is happy, he can help me find the place to which the troops of Unug are going, Anzud can put me on the track of my brothers."
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