ETCSLglossingSignSign name: SIG
Values: si11, sig, sik, šex

The debate between Copper and Silver (c.5.3.6), line c536.D.75
mungazigu2a-šag4-ga-kaĝal2-labalu3-mu-ak
mungazigu2a-šag4ĝal2balak
saltmustard?neckfieldto be (located)to turn overto do
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Paragraph t536.p21 (line(s) 67-84) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
"When you keep hitting the soil, like someone falling from a roof; when they carry (?) you out from the big brambles and …… thorns, like a dog with a ……, as if they were catching a thief at midnight; when the great, turbulent waters, regularly, yearly (?), fill the desert; when they carry the grain from the dry ground to the canal banks; when they carry the sesame from the furrows to the canal banks; when they carry to the …… red onions, white onions, edible bulbous leeks (?) and turnips flourishing in the furrows; when they transport the salt and spice seeds lying at the edges of the fields; when they feed the various grains to cattle and sheep; when they bring …… to the pigs born at the fattener's; when they feed dough to the porcupine's litter; when they crush coarse flour for the huge wild boars, straight-tailed fish, il (?) fish, carp, fish with bellies (?), giraba fish laying their eggs in large amounts in the shallows (?), gurgal birds, suda birds, large u birds from the middle of the sea, eggs of ducks and all kinds of birds, all the good things which thrive in the desert, at peace there. (unknown no. of lines missing)"
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