ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GA
Values: ga, gur11, ka3, qa2

A hymn to Inana (Inana C) (c.4.07.3), line c4073.22
niĝ2tag-ga-niga-ba-ra-ḫumtum9u18-luXsaĝkeše2NIXsud-sud
niĝ2tagga-ba-ra-ḫumulu3Xsaĝkeše2NIXsud
thingto touchdespairsouth wind (storm)Xheadto bindNIXto be distant
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Paragraph t4073.p3 (line(s) 18-28) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her, speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance. It is her game to speed conflict and battle, untiring, strapping on her sandals. Clothed (?) in a furious storm, a whirlwind, she …… the garment of ladyship. When she touches …… there is despair, a south wind which has covered ……. Inana sits on harnessed (?) lions, she cuts to pieces him who shows no respect. A leopard of the hills, entering (?) the roads, raging (?), ……, the mistress is a great bull trusting in its strength; no one dare turn against her. ……, the foremost among the Great Princes, a pitfall for the disobedient, a trap for the evil, a …… for the hostile, wherever she casts her venom …….
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