ETCSLglossingSignSignSignSignSignSignSignSign name: SAL.TUG2.PAP.IGIgunu.NUN.ME.EZEN×KASKAL (NIN.PAB.SIG7.NUN.ME.UBARA)
Values: ninkum

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B) (c.2.4.2.02), line c24202.76
a-ra2-bizag-bi-še3šid-biba-ra-zu
a-ra2zagšidzu
timessideto countto know
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Paragraph t24202.p6 (line(s) 56-76) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
I stride forward in majesty, trampling endlessly through the esparto grass and thickets, capturing elephant after elephant, creatures of the plain; and I put an end to the heroic roaring in the plains of the different liona, the dragons of the plains, wherever it approaches from and wherever it is going. I do not go after them with a net, nor do I lie in wait for them in a hide; it comes to a confrontation of strength and weapons. I do not hurl a weapon; when I plunge a bitter-pointed lance in their throats, I do not flinch at their roar. I am not one to retreat to my hiding-place but, as when one warrior kills another warrior, I do everything swiftly on the open plain. In the desert where the paths peter out, I reduce the roar at the lair to silence. In the sheepfold and the cattle-pen, where heads are laid to rest (?), I put the shepherd tribesmen at ease. Let no one ever at any time say about me," Could he really subdue them all on his own?" The number of lions that I have despatched with my weapons is limitless; their total is unknown.
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