ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: KA×GAN₂tenu (PU₃ and KA×KAR₂)
Values: bu₃, kana₆, puzur₅

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.34

a-na-aš-am₃	lu₂	ĝa₂-la	dag-ga-gin₇	ĝiš	ma-ab-ḫur-ḫur-re-en
a-na-aš	lu₂	ĝa₂-la	dag	ĝiš	ḫur
why	person	noun part of multiword verb	to roam around	tree	to scratch
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Paragraph t513.p7 (line(s) 29-35) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The learned scribe humbly answered his supervisor: "I shall give you a response to what you have just recited like a magic spell, and a rebuttal to your charming ditty delivered in a bellow. Do not make me out to be an ignoramus -- I will answer you once and for all! You opened my eyes like a puppy's and you made me into a human being. But why do you go on outlining rules for me as if I were a shirker? Anyone hearing your words would feel insulted!"

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary