ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GIR3
Values: er9, gir3, g̃ir3, g̃iri3, šakkan2
Enmerkar and En-suḫgir-ana (c.1.8.2.4), line c1824.A.203
ab2-eamar-bi-še3inimgigbi-ib2-be2
ab2amarinimgigdug4
cowcalfwordto be illto say
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Paragraph t1824.p16 (line(s) 198-205) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
On that day the animal pen and the byre were turned into a house of silence; they were dealt a disaster. There was no milk in the udder of the cow, the day darkened for the calf, its young calf was hungry and wept bitterly. There was no milk in the udder of the goat; the day darkened for the kid. The buck-goat lay starving, its life ……. The cow spoke bitterly to its calf. The goat …… to its kid. The holy churn was empty, …… was hungry, …… lay starving.
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