ETCSLglossingSignSign name: AB2×GAN2tenu
Values: šem5

The debate between Grain and Sheep (c.5.3.2), line c532.19
dšakkan2bar-rim4-mala-ba-ra-e3-a
DIĝIR-šAKKAN2BAR-RIM4-MALA-BA-RA-E3-A
šakkan2bar-rim4e3
Šakkan (DN)arid landto go out or in
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Paragraph t532.p2 (line(s) 12-25) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
There was no muš grain of thirty days; there was no muš grain of forty days; there was no muš grain of fifty days; there was no small grain, grain from the mountains or grain from the holy habitations. There was no cloth to wear; Uttu had not been born -- no royal turban was worn; Lord Niĝir-si, the precious lord, had not been born; Šakkan (the god of wild animals) had not gone out into the barren lands. The people of those days did not know about eating bread. They did not know about wearing clothes; they went about with naked limbs in the Land. Like sheep they ate grass with their mouths and drank water from the ditches.
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