ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GABA
Values: du8, duḫ, gab, gaba

Dumuzid and Enkimdu (c.4.08.33), line c40833.73
su8-baddumu-zid-de3edin-a-nadu14mu-un-di-ni-ib-mu2-mu2
sipad (ES: su8-ba)dumu-zidedindu14mu2
shepherdDumuzid (DN)open countrydiscordto grow
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Paragraph t40833.p8 (line(s) 65-73) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
He was cheerful, he was cheerful, at the edge of the riverbank, he was cheerful. On the riverbank, the shepherd on the riverbank, now the shepherd was even pasturing the sheep on the riverbank. The farmer approached the shepherd there, the shepherd pasturing the sheep on the riverbank; the farmer Enkimdu approached him there. Dumuzid …… the farmer, the king of dyke and canal. From the plain where he was, the shepherd from the plain where he was provoked a quarrel with him; the shepherd Dumuzid from the plain where he was provoked a quarrel with him.
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